Challenge
///// Nightdwellers 'Beginning Line' Challenge (May) /////
Write a piece of literature with the beginning line ‘Lost in the dark, tangled in silken threads’ Tag it #nightdwellers #beginningline.
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Just for inspiration, shits and giggles that kind of thing too... ;)
Trapped
Lost in the dark, tangled in silken threads.
Alone in the moonbeams, trembling in piercing cold.
Collapsed in the wreckage, sorting through shattered dreams.
Broken in my mind, looping in turgid casuistry
Mocked by the presence, so temptingly near, of a carrot on a string.
Though crushed with pain and exquisite despair,
through the agony I begin, unwinding the cords
though it leaves me bare, refusing to give in.
A carrot I see only now, too late, is rotting on its string.
I tear my own flesh along with the bands, bloodied I rise to my feet.
I scream my defiance, my hollowed out joy, to the nightmare I've been in.
The carrot falls, and I cannot bear, the memories it brings.
Slowly I turn, and walk in the dark, needing someone to share my pain.
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