monsters

A demon made my heart wrench,

Literally.

My tendons tore to shreds.

It was an attack

A personal and very real attack.

It got stuck at the hypodermis

I hyperventilated

He knocked me down again

Black out.

Hypothermia, I could feel the sweat

Melting down the walls of the dermis.

It all feels like fantasy

A dream where your paralysed

“Wake up, snap back into it,”

I was weak

I couldn’t protect myself from the germs,

the dust, dirt, damage.

My epidermis exposed.

“Repulsive, revolting, repelling,”

A skeleton was all that remained

The bones withering away

My soul floating in the dusty air

I wander

aimlessly

Hoping to gain a perspective

A meaning.

A turbulent pushing was meeting my chest –

Each element of the echo could be heard

“Leave me alone”

It started to tear through my ear drums

A curdling scream

that put goosebumps on my broken skin

I couldn’t escape it

Not now, not ever

A nightmare was driving my reality

where I was left with no skin to pinch

So that somebody could wake me up

And remove this heaving new monster off my chest.