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The Rot

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The Rot
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I'm slowing down as my flesh rots
My four paws are just open gash
The burning sand
I can only pant
It's up ahead
I'm almost there
Before my eyes the abyss

It stares back at me

The endless desert for the eye to see
Mountains of stone too far to reach
Just this black hole
You cannot see
But there are eyes
Suspended by the nothingness

There no reaching the bottom

Muscles tense and snap
Just end this
Just jump in
A smell worse then my rotting flesh
At the edge
I just stand there

The dying body givens in
Bones break upon the hot sand
I feel lifted
I see my body
A dead wolf with half his flesh worn off

This is when the pain sets in

I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones.
Love to make my systems go
Welcome to the new age,
to the new age
Welcome to the new age,
to the new age

I bite, claw, and scratch my way back
This body is what was given to me
Comfortable in decaying skin
My mangled flesh
I bare this corruption

I can hear the void laughing at me

Muscles tense and pull
Just get up
Just stand up
A smell worse than my rotting flesh
Fills my nose
Just before me

I lift my maw
Something guttural inside of me
My eyes are glazed over
I growl at this burning sky
If you have been following me, you may know that I have three recurring dreams that have followed me every night since I was a child. I rarely have any other dreams except passing daydreams. This is the third dream; unlike the other dreams, the setting and events never change.

I wrote this recently. I focused intently on my memories of the dream and let it flow out of my mind. I probably could describe it more or add details to this writing, but its not the way I tend to work. It is a bit lyrical, and I can sing it back to myself, so I am going to list it as such.
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As my heart quickens, I speed up

My two hands are fists, closed shut

The frozen wastes

I can barely breathe

It's far away

I'm nowhere near

This open space before me

 

It stares right through, unseeing

 

The finite cavern that leaves me blind

Pools of water too small to drink

Just this white door

I see it now

But my eyes, they blink

As I run into something

 

Trapped on the heights

 

Knees buckle in despair

Just let it begin

Just let me rise

A breath as light as my spinning head

Over the edge

I simply fall

 

The living soul cries out in rage

Body trembling upon the snow

I feel weighted

I avoid the mirror

A girl whose spirit splits in shards

 

Here's where it all goes numb

 

I'm dreaming now, but I don't feel it.

Hating restraint, stagnation

The same old thing,

rinse and repeat

The same old thing,

rinse and repeat

 

I grip, pull, and climb my way up

I deny what was forced upon me

No comfort inside this shell

My familiar mask

I tear it off

 

I can see the stars shining

 

Knees strain for the strength to stand

Hard to arise

Hard to break free

A breath tighter than shackles

Escapes my lips

And hangs in the air

 

I lower my eyes

Something human within me

My tears cold on my cheeks

As I walk on ice some more