It drags its flesh across the floor
Fingernails and toenails clicking as it comes
It moves in the corner of my eye
Ever shifting always changing
Broken glass and dry burnt leaves
Its breath comes out like a slimy slug
Filling the air with the reek of
The dead recently consumed.
Blood red eyes that eat my soul
As its hands and mouth feed on my flesh
Like a carcass I just lay there
Ribs ripped back and stomach open
Emptied out from heart to bowels
I wish I’d never gone to sleep.
©ronvdm777
May 2020
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