I’m stuck
You've caught me
You don’t know it yet

Here I am
Hanging on a delicate mandala of silky, capillary fibers
Beautifully crocheted in a complex, radial network of death
As white as the winter snow
Untainted by the spoils of spring
Raindrops have gathered along the fine strands
Weighing them down, creating distortions in your masterpiece

As beautiful as it is, I must escape
I cannot move
Feathery white threads gracefully appear
Hindering my arms and legs
I survey my surroundings with hopeless fervor
Knowing inside that struggle is pointless

I am not alone
Others are here
Too many to count
Like yellow blades of grass in the cool autumn air
As we all look around
Endless eyes of never ending emptiness
We realize our escape is as futile as reaching the stars
We somberly resign to our fate
Which you take gleefully

Like a dragon hoards golden paraphernalia and an abundance of jewels
You hold the hearts of all whose lives you proclaimed as your own
You become the keeper of our inner most thoughts and dreams
You become the keeper of untold secrets and private caverns of thought
You become the keeper of those who work the hardest and those who loaf about
You become the keeper of principle and dishonesty
You become the keeper of happiness and rage
You become the keeper of curiosity and indifference

We all look on in despair as the sun sets in the west
Sinking below the horizon, seeming to say goodbye for the last time
And as the last glittering sliver passed down the horizon
Night fell

This is your territory
You hold the power here

I feel vibrations running through my body
Slowly at first, like waves in the middle of a desolate ocean
Soon they grow stronger, like waves crashing down upon rocks
Reverberating in my head, throwing my thoughts off a cliff of disarray
In the complete pandemonium of my brain a lone thought stands alone
I’m afraid
Terrified beyond all imagine

I hear you before I see you
The soft pitter-patter of your feet
I close my eyes, unwilling to greet death face to face
I hear you gliding all round me to the others
Surveying your new goods that you can plunder before the sun comes back to the desolation you’ve done






I can perceive that you’re going to everyone
Observing but not stopping
Why won’t you stop

Are you simply relishing in your power to implant terror into us without simply lifting a delicate finger
Why won’t you stop
Are you looking for the juiciest specimen to start your nightly bloodbath on
Or simply wanting to pick of the little sick ones and save the best for last
Why won’t you stop

I hear you come towards me
I can feel icy tendrils creeping around me
Trapping me in a cocoon of fear

Why me
Is this why I was put on this earth
To be devoured by you
No
It cannot be
But it is
My life up to this point was pointless
A fruitless endeavor
Nothing ever became of me
I must let it go
If it was meant to be
Why fight

I hear you stop before me

It has been decided

I’m the first

I slowly open my eyes, now a dark blue, clouded by the horrible truth that has been thrust upon me
I see you
Monstrous
Your legs arch up above your body
Unending steel beams holding you up
Coarse follicles of hair gather along your legs
Eight of them I count
Your enormous body is almost impossible to see in the black of night
But I know it is there
I can feel the sickly, humid heat radiating off you in pulses
The spring of adrenaline that must be coursing through your veins
Your head looks down upon me in absolute smugness
You’re eyes, black and beady
Hundreds of them, jutting out at different angles
All-seeing
Prospecting me as I’m bound helplessly to your silent automaton of death
You stand over me in your ego trip of self-satisfaction and majesty
You have conquered me
A miniscule bug in your subjective eyes

I watch silently as you slowly rear back, preparing to affirm my face

I close my eyes preparing for the inevitable grim end

Pain
Torment
My back arched as a raw scream of dizzying agony was ripped from my lungs
My eyes are involuntarily wretched open by my brain
Your razor sharp knife-life teeth imbed themselves into my taunt skin
Your jaw an iron mechanism
My body spasms
Impulsive and uncontrolled
Your legs
Encircle and entomb
Forcing me into subservience
I feel as you seduce the blood from within my veins
My essence flowing into your greedy mouth
Never to be seen again
Numbness begins to invade my body
Blackness encroaches on the edges of my vision

In the last few seconds
Of what could be called life
But you take away so swiftly
Too soon to be decided
I gaze past you
And look at the stars
Twinkling brightly
In mocking laughter



The last leaf fell