Let them bite and devour
(do bed bugs eat beds)
I can’t shut my eyes at night
Delving deep in the darkness
Slight splinters of light
Revealing the shapes of my room
But still my eyes seek deeper
Let there be grotesques and horrors
Rip me from my slumber
Tear my shreds to shreds
Let me feel the sickly breath of a non thing
As it gnarled smile boasts rows of teeth
Close enough to claw and scrape the skin from my bones
Take me to your deranged dwelling
Where I dangles as your meat
The darkness fizzes with hints of grizzled greys
Tired now struggling eyelids close unfettered
Sleep that hopes for an end
but it won’t
Copyright © Christopher Quigley | Year Posted 2024
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