Slowly I remove the masked carcass that envelopes my soul.
Only to let loose the pieces of my shattered remains.
Here they lie now,
spread out on the floor, bloody and battered.
My breath beginning to seize,
and my heart beginning to fail.
At least it is a fate made of my own design.
One in which self destruction courses through my veins,
and a flood of misery drowns all of that around me.
Perhaps I am cursed.
Doomed to walk the earth as a fragmented part of what I once was.
The vitality no longer remaining,
and the creatures that once derived from the darkest corners of the world,
now dwelling within my mind and feasting on my humanity.
Though,
Let it be known.
I do not wish to rid them.
They are nightmares, but they are mine.
The pain in which they supply is simply a figuration of my own terror that already lies within my subconscious.
Like a parasite the burrow their way into my head.
Rapidly multiplying,
and depleting any vitality left in my damaged being.
But "oh" how they are beautiful :
Whispering tantalizing lies in my sleep,
and caressing my soul with talons of deception.
I know now what it means to be petrified.
To be truly in a state of utter agony,
and aware that everything I am is everything I now fear.
For there lies the irony in life :
As we coward from evil that lurks within places unknown,
yet not realizing, there is no actual escape from ourselves.
Copyright © 2014 Ashlie Pfeifer