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The Spot

A spot appeared, under normal circumstances

I wouldn't pay it mind...I almost did not but for

the tight whispers, when secrecy staggered across my path,

I couldn't keep track and quite suddenly disappearing,

 

I'm left standing and staring, a blank spot, like a

dark space, a hole without a filling; foot forward

I filled the space, my feet were there before I blinked,

on the other side, unsure of the journey in between,

 

I felt the breath of sweat tracing my back,

flooding my insides with dread of unknown origin,

worse than the eye of a tornado, shocking me.

A split in the moment, when seconds shattered into now,

 

drowning time to the bottom of forever; the buzzing

in my ears drilled into me, producing a spot felt, a spot now

visible, spreading somewhere within, digging its way through skin,

through muscle, bones scattered to one side and the pace

 

to reach tarmac was furious, would not forgive, the spot unidentifiable, remained, navigating a way through

until reaching a dead end; wanting to turn back proved

impossible, the spot had filled, red, ****** red

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Jan 24, 2018
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