nother random poem
It is devoid
Sitting quietly in its little cave
Snuggled tightly between soft quilts and chilly stone walls.
Empty
Listless
It needs to run, not walk
Leap off a cliff
Not sit idly on a couch
Drinking beer and discussing the weather.
Without the screaming danger,
The excrutiating joy,
There is no point.
It can't get through my walls
My barriers of bitter fear and anger.
It can't break them down without the ingredient
The piece that makes it all worth it.
It is missing
life's
terror.
Without it I am apathetic to your touch.
I saw a corpse today
Sitting upright in front of a blank world
The skin was dripping off
Melting into the earth
The sunlight catching glints of bone.
"Why are you here, spreading your stench into the air?"
I asked it, plugging my nose in disgust.
It smiled at me best it could
A few droplets of flesh dangling from a jawbone
Its maggot filled eye sockets focusing on my solid living body.
"Look at the plants."
It replied, slurring the s so that it hissed like a snake.
I looked
The grass was entwining around its feet
Feeding off of its desicated body.
As I was distracted it reached over and snagged my wrist
Its cold, rotten fingers gripping tightly,
Resisting my paniced struggles to get free.
"I am more alive then you"
It whispered through the yellow teeth.
I screamed and let my legs drag me away from that place
Fleeing in a panic
I wanted to yell that I was alive
That I was whole
But my voice just caught in my throat