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by spidey Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Horror/Scary · #1467493
empty but for this
I can feel it there -
a squiggling wretch
inside my dead chest.
The worm in my heart
wriggles and squirms
like a maggot delighting
in rotting flesh.

It mocks me -
a living thought
inside this shell,
stagnant, impotent.
My once fruitful being
now sags with fleeting memory.
Soon nothing will be left
but for the little beast -

The worm in my heart.
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