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Monster

I see you, monster...

In your sockets bore dead, dark eyes

They hold the blackest of stares

Nebulous swirling pits of demise

 

Thin lips would spout the most sibilant of hisses

Every so often would curl into a snarl

Dry and chapped, almost unworthy of kisses

 

Large, rough snout, jutting out like a crag

You sniff around tirelessly for easy targets

Preying on the unsuspecting minds of those under your flag

 

Tapering chin, sprouting strands of coarse hair

Unkempt and gritty from your last meal

Decaying teeth, crooked due to little to no care

 

Your face is cratered; tales of trying adolescent years

Wearing a face only a mother could love

Expressionless but it screams out your fears

 

Ugly jointed limbs that grew out of sync

Disproportionate, misshapen, grotesque

Little noggin with sparse hair, packed within, a brain that thinks

 

 

I hear you, monster...

As you stalk your sleepless nights

Nocturnal ambience be your playground

Lurking in the dark; places with no light

 

Bulky, heavy feet but deft and silent

Can barely notice when you're up and about

As if cloaked yourself stealthy, with steps ever transient

 

Respire you do, exhaling breaths so gnarly

Ingesting good air, converting into fervid, loathsome notions

With which you paint a portrait so ghastly

 

 

I feel you monster...

Deep within the recesses of my heart

Destroying and distorting all that was pure

Testing my will till I should fall apart

 

You're but the twisted manifestation of conscience

Feeding on my trials and nurturing them into vile abominations

I despise that of you but I seem to have developed dependence

 

 

I see you, monster...

You're horrid and beastly, an embodiment of absolute horror

I await the day that you would finally dissolve

For I am weary of seeing you staring back in the mirror

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Written by
ryn
Published
Sep 18, 2014
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Still riding out the storm... Please bear with me

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