Hurtling towards Earth, a black catacomb
alight and bright crashing through the stars,
encrusted with web-strung spores crawling, bloated,
seething with giant skeletal arachnids from Mars

pincers snap-snap-a-snapping in tuneless melody,
vying for the taste of air and wet flesh
with eyes frail, skin milky and pale,
regurgitating from throbbing juggernaut *******

ruled by a mother predatory and spoilt
soft flesh under her carapace sagging and gravid,
feasting upon her own scuttling children
injecting pain sultry and rabid,

baying for blood
sweat dripping off her charred shell
she hoists herself up on spindly legs
drags herself from the pits of hell

[she begged for my love but
instead I gave her a dangerous smile -
now she rots in outer space
up into the black 'bout a hundred mile]

round 'n round she spins a web
wreathed in skulls and threats galore,
in a meteor she fell from Heaven
and she's here with the spiders, of that I'm very sure

dead but wholly alive
encapsulated within an eight-legged freak,
inhuman screeches upon the wind
her vengeance and caustic fury shrieks

Am I to feel the bite of poised fangs?
Am I to be cursed by the darkness from where she hangs?

Will she lurk beneath one of my many beds
my insides to crawl with her hairy legs -

I loved her then, I love her now
alas jealousy drives us apart

she passed me her trusting love

-

I drove its shattered blade deep into her heart.