The Body

by Serina the Squid   Feb 24, 2013


Sitting on its haunches. Teeth Bared. The fear.
Before, substance released. This time, rot.
Such vacancy. Materialized flesh. Absence clear.

Bristling, the fur. The moment End was near.
Tediously relentless, it came. She fought.
Gnashing. Into. Against. The fear.

Sockets sunken to sedation in which the beast did rear.
Something went. However, something also was forgot.
A wall. 10 feet away. Lingering. This time, presence clear.

The pink of us melts. Into mildew green. How lifeless eyes peer.
The chest still willed to be rising--buzzing, remains of her thought.
Relaxed muscles. Fingers too warm. Perhaps all that she died of was fear.

Mine were not the only hands thinking they still felt a pulse here.
Experienced or not--knowing death--the Grim Reapers still sought.
Fluorescent hum. Familiar. Disbelief in death, though the dying rang clear.

Ferocious the strike of the predator we steer.
To cower when it has found you. It is pain, not time, you've bought.
Reach more strongly into life for love than into death for fear.
You can see it reflecting in the eyes; either outcome clear.

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  • 10 years ago

    by Lemon

    The way you've written this with the punctuation is good because it creates a staccato effect and cuts the poem down to the bare bones, as I believe it can be called. However it does make the poem (to me, at least) fairly difficult to read. Maybe try limiting the number of short sentences you use? You also have a few rogue capital letters "Teeth Bared"- the b should be lowercase.

    "Reach more strongly into life for love than into death for fear.
    You can see it reflecting in the eyes; either outcome clear."- it took me a couple of times reading that to get it, but now that I do, I think it's great :). I like the repetition of ideas in this poem, as you do it quite subtly. The idea of fear, for example, as that would be the predominant emotion if being chased by... whatever the 'monster' is. Fear would conquer the emotions and therefore becomes quite an underlying theme in the poem.

    Good job! :)

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