Sunday, 20 April 2025

Shudders

 


A shudder

jolts and judders

up my spine,

neck hairs raise,

all at the same time

like a chorus line

bowing then rising to the crowd.

Startled eyes become blind

to stop me seeing the horrors

that are invading my mind.

 

I saw something

just before.

In the darkness.

I saw. I saw...

I'm not sure.

Words can’t describe.

It was more like a feeling

than seeing, but I could sense it there.

Whatever it was, I can't unpick.

It's like the pieces are in my brain,

but they have a sheen

that is oily and slick,

but it was nothing good

of this, I am sure.

My stomach lurches,

I'm feeling sick.

 

A scream twists

around my throat

like a rope,

cutting off my

air supply.

Stopping the words

that I want to cry.

Stopping me saying

what is there right now.

If I don't speak its name

does it become less real?

If I pretend It isn't there

Will I still feel the fear?

Will I still be going through this same ordeal.

I know I can't deny,

I saw it with my own two eyes,

I felt it gripping my heart too tight.

I saw the light bleed from my eyes,

leaving me alone, 

in endless night.

 

Oh God, they've spotted me.

I know, because the atmosphere

has changed dramatically,

like there was electricity,

now the air battery

is dead.

All that remains is dread.

I can feel it, deep inside my head.

Something. What was that thing?

It creeped into my vision then out again.

It seeped through my memories,

then clouded them.

Now nothing remains,

but the withered strains

of my throat trying to cry.

 

I can't take this...

I can taste its breath,

rancid and stale.

A scent of death

lingering

in the cloud vapour

it exhales.

I don't want to breathe, I don't want to see.

I don't want to hear those footsteps

creeping around me.

I want to scream. Let me be.

I want to beg and plead,

but my ragged throat

can't even whimper a mangled whisper

through this hold it has

around my neck as I choke.

Let me be. I silently simper,

but the thing in the darkness

won't ever let it's clasp grow limper.

 

 




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