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Nadja (from Lazlo’s perspective ) from What We Do in the Shadows 💔🦇

By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
My good lady wife Nadja

muses are a decision for death

A trap that envelops a creature more enormous than a bear

Than a mountain being snapped in two by a soft, plaintive river

My Muse muses for me

My life is not better than my death

A dangerous dance that gobbles my sun

Swept

Pores into details that mutate my heart

As wild and carnal Josephine was Napoleon’s Achilles heel
His darling Muse
She stumbled into his own undead musings like a ravaged disease

Capturing him forever in a climax that only teases

Mutates like a prion pattern

I won't let her be my Muse

I love, she loves me too much

So much

To Death.

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About the Creator

Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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  • Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock2 years ago

    Is it the depth & gravity of her love that he fears or the possibility of becoming lost to obsession?

  • So intense and emotional! Loved your poem so much Merly!

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