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Expectations

CW: uncomfortable imagery

By Eric JacobsenPublished 5 years ago 1 min read

A smile slowly curled about its face

I knew the curve all too well

A maw with too many teeth

A scream curdles no blood but my own

Sight crowding me

Slick orb

Stroke my body. Alway-

-S watching

Moist slithering snakes up exposed thighs

Undulating it’s way into my pores

My ears

Wet from warm panting

Flesh on flesh

Feeling under my taught

Skin

Oozing down my back

Blood spills from a ceiling crack

Nails across chests of chalkboards

Limbs cover bare bodies in hoards

Sweat on sweat

Sinking into my aching

Skin

In a flurry

Nothing

I shiver in the absence of warm flesh

It leaves me wanting

surreal poetry

About the Creator

Eric Jacobsen

Writer of short stories and lover of fantasy. Not much of a fighter, some consider a poet.

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