Your words fade to grey—
When you take advantage of them they broil away.
Once a bright yellow, you filled the room with light.
Now as dull as a beaten blade
The room remains hollow
Empty.
No matter how small it gets—
Hidden away. Those words you always said
Creep beneath my feet and follow me into bed.
Haunting my dreams
I can’t sleep—
I can’t cry—
I can’t eat—
Unable to die,
I crawl—
Into that hollow room.
I fill it with stolen red tears—
To drown in them,
Will be better than to hear
I love you
From your lying—
Grey—
Lips.

The Large Green Wall
Consumed the world around it in the
F l a k y
White words
S c a t t e r e d
Along
Its surface
T
R
A
    P
P
      E
D

Stories told through the grime in a bath
The past
What has been
Like wrinkles on a hand
Crevices
Lines
Bumps
Age

Drops of water erase
Cleansing the tile sides
Your hand print
Outlined on the door
Wiped away
With subtle rain
All that is left
Now travels with the clouds

They itch
I scratch

They bleed
I still scratch

Annoying
Inevitable

Bugs will always be
They will always bite
And I will always scratch

I will always be surprised
I will always be annoyed
And even though I know not to

I will always scratch
I will forever bleed

Predestined slivers snake through my skin
Cleverly piercing each crevice of my fingerprints
Each varying in sizes
Each sharper than the next
My hand quivers at its new friends
Subtle spots of red appear in unwanted places
Lost and enraged they dig deeper
Swelling blankets the tails that peek out of my pink flesh
Each movement makes them scream
Each scream makes my eyes water
A light trickle of sweat bounces off of the surface below
I stand to take a breath
This task never ends
The rotten ground beneath me laughs at my anguish
“I should let you rot in hell”, I murmured.
It replied with a silent grin
The face of my chore is a dastardly fellow
Cheap
Unreliable
A liar
“You were supposed to last”, I snickered
Back on my knees I continue to scrape and pull
Splinters embedded in my skin will be my memory of this task
A colony of shattered sharks lying within

My demon lays, awake within me
Silently it taps its claws
Slowly it scratches into my bones
I can feel its grin
My marrow rots
The smell of its breath lingers in the meat of my body
It boils the blood within my brain
Sending me into a frantic frenzy
I feed on my thoughts
The gobbler is my name
Memories run at the sight of my teeth
I now know nothing
Full and unsatisfied I crave more
I sit.
I wait.
The next catch sure to be great
Like a tiger I purr at the excitement
I spot your thoughts across the room
Tender and soft they sleep
Unaware
Unafraid
Vulnerable
“Just a taste” I murmur
“A nibble wont hurt”

I’m still hungry
Your carcass
Sprawled
Mauled
Your eyes are still open
But there is no life within them
The blank stare eases me
Soothes the scratches carved into my skin
My demon is out
Applauding me