Following the Moonlight

she jogged quickly at first with only the sound of her jagged breath breaking the dead silence of the night after only minutes of running her pace regressed towards limping and she grew weary from the loss of blood her faltered vision allowed her to see the wounds she had attained that night the sight of her bruised body brought tears to the rims of her blackened eyes she let the light of the moon guide her to a place where she could rest and continue to cry tenderly for the remainder of the night for a minute she surrendered herself to the aura of the night to the silence to the serenity it wasn’t long before the silence was broken now it was simply a distant memory they were close before she had a chance to retreat they moved in quickly and quietly they had picked up her scent and once again she was in the midst of peril where was she to run no, she would not run from them not again not because she didn’t want to run primarily because she could not she stared into the face of death would she be able to slip through the cracks and escape with her life once again no she knew she would not she must sit still and await her fate as she followed the moonlight with her eyes she could feel them closing in on her she knew danger was approaching This is the end , she thought to herself Yes she knew it was as she felt them gnawing on her already wounded body and her screams and cries could not discourage them it is in the moonlight where they remember her for that is where her corpse is destined to lay for eternity