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Hunger Games

It's not another blue moon

The wolves are restless

Their savagery grows like

The wicked fire outside my cave

It's almost there and I can

Feel it burning up my toes

My chest still, motionless, remains a frigid icebox

I forgot what purpose heat serves

It's been too cold

Too unforgiving

It's been too many black skies

Frostbite all over my skin

Closer to deaths conniving hand

Enough to graze

Enough to spark fear, touch, blood builds up, squeezing my veins, green vines, curling in and out of their white soil, pulsating, glorious serendipity, the tangibility of

Rest in peace

In pieces

Bony white sharp shards of

Nails

That don't even sever my flesh

No drops of red

Not even to cut the thick air

the clock keeps it's mouth shut

I have no answers

Monotony

In between living and dying

Limbo, flatline, where am I

Louder

Where am I

I hear the wolves howl once more, closer now

The stars shatter

a streak of silver lining

Cosmic brutality

I'm the punch line

Forever hungry

I finally feel their hot breath on the nape of my neck

I close my eyes

Where's my escape?

Stuck

Just

White teeth

Blades

Carnivorous

Famished

Just for one taste of my soft flesh

And god, god I whisper through

the stubborn air

Isn't that all that matters?

The murky cloud of my cry

Turns ghost

Another victim of my past pleas

A furry nuzzle to contrast the ruthless slay that leads me to my final destination

Pink fields, beautiful fidelity, your Golden Gates, on a cloud too far away

Always a little out of reach

I'll wait an eternity

For a god who never picks up his trash

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