percipience ~ a person who becomes aware of, knows, or identifies by means of the senses. |
Percipience ** Image ID #1983250 Unavailable ** Eve after eve, the dream returns. A child lost in the night. The darkling woods, where no light burns: the source of all my fright. Branches, disrobed of any life, reach out, like grasping claws, leaving red trails, as if a knife has flayed me in its jaws. I stumble on; the ebon path gleams with an eerie hue. Malevolent, I feel a wrath that I cannot subdue. My flesh now hangs in sanguine strips, an arcane offering. A noiseless scream falls from my lips yet to this pain I cling. A fluttering, that's faint at first, interrupts the silence. What demon comes, filled with blood-thirst, to offer me it's violence? No place to hide, I hold my breath and silently I pray "Come for me dark Angel of Death. I beg, take me away." I seek the peace found in release from this torturous place. I fear my anguish will not cease 'til death's final embrace. What power holds me in this cage? What evil holds me dear? I curse the heavens in my rage 'til overcome with fear. Eve after eve, the dream goes on; no sunrise can I find nor will I ever see the dawn ... trapped in an insane mind. An entry for the inaugural round of "Invalid Item" Prompt 1: Image Line Count: 36 percipience ~ a person or thing that becomes aware of, knows, or identifies by means of the senses. sanguine ~ blood-red; red Note: This was written in English Common Hymn meter (8/6/8/6) used most notably by Emily Dickinson. I chose it because it has a bouncy sing-song flow to it which I thought contrasted with the darkness of the story in a rather macabre way |