Pendulous
Consciouness finds me and jerks me awake.
In a dusky dank cell closed in and opaque.
No circulation, my hands were bound!
My legs were tied, I couldn't move around!
My pulse takes on unbearable beat.
My mind is playing tricks, and then evilly repeats!
Swish, swish, came a hideous sound.
Closer and closer it creeps rendering me spellbound.
My skin crawls in the sweltering torridity.
The murky cell is horribly sooty.
Swish, swish; it slowly descends.
Eyes entranced, on a swinging pendulum.
Swish, swish it cuts off my shrill..
Whoosh, whoosh it contrives its kill.
The horrific night bargins with death.
I woke up startled and couldn't take a breath.
Finally, taking in my familiar surroundings.
I ponder on what, I was just dreaming.
note: This poem inspired me from Poes. Pit and the pendulum
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