Final Girl Syndrome

Don’t

look

back.

Something with

the face of your best-friend,

your loved one, and

your lost one

is walking barefoot

towards you.

It never

runs.

It never

rests.

Pass on the curse

or meet your demise.

*

He’s standing

across the street

again.

Face white as

the void,

hands still,

like death

is waiting for a

permission

slip.

The babysitter

won’t make it past

Act II.

*

Campfires

crackle like

ribcages.

The lake

remembers

who didn't come

back.

The boy in the water

still dreams

of drowning you

next.

*

They say

she dances in blood

with a laugh

like music

that chills your

bones.

She’s not waiting

to be saved;

she's hungry

for your blood.

*

Sleep becomes

a weapon.

You think

you’re safe?

Just close your eyes.

That’s when

he comes,

with blades for fingers

and a playground of fear

carved in the back

of your brain.

*

You

dodged

the accident.

But death is an

unstoppable force,

a lover

you can’t ghost.

It will

find

you.

*

You

keep

surviving,

but the story

never

ends.

You’re the

final girl.

The sequel is coming.

Run.

~~~~~~~~~~

The following movies were referenced in the poem:

It Follows

Halloween

Friday the 13th

Abigail

Nightmare of Elm Street

Final Destination

And the final piece of the poem references the Final Girl trope everyone loves (or hates, or both).

I am aware some of these had multiple survivors in the end or had a male survivor as the main focus but that doesn't mean it happened throughout the entire series of the few series' I mentioned.

The next thirteen or so posts I make will either be fiction or poems horror related, and they will be based/inspired by more video games I liked.

Here is some fiction I made based on games so far:

Hope you like them if you haven't read them before.