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Challenge of the Month V: March
Close Encounter. A gunshot wound barely survived. A disease in fateful remission. A reaper, narrowly evaded. Write about a close encounter with death. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. 
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dazey

-I hope they send it to you.

There’s something following me

It’s right on my back

There’s something calling me

I think it feels like a heart attack

When I told my parents I heard voices in my head -they told me a bed time story

It used to choke me cold

but now I just lose my sight

My hands are clean but my head is awful gory

I got dreams in the day and reality in the night

I don’t see blood or imagine to kill

This is a sin more keen

Serial self subservant

endangerment

would fit the bill

It kind of makes me mean

When it grabs me by my side and

Stabs on my insides

Or holds me by the ear

and tells me, it’s something important you hear-

maybe life would be simpler

if I had just died

Pacified

Classified

by what ends

It depends on

Possibly,

how long I’ll last.

Who holds the pen

But I think I’ve slipped it past

this time

And I know I’ve got good things overhead

And my grace glanced, holy tranced

Keeps my love from dead

But there’s just something inside me that lets me feel no pain

And my soul is kept from falling apart

Congenital insensitivity to the membrane

I think the shadows just ripped out my heart

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