dark souls bound
by non-death to the shadows.
wandering, wallowing.
Looming.
fingernails like fishscales;
chipping. peeling.
tearing at my flesh.
a last soul-torn scream.
mute-silence
carved-out tongue
corrupt. filthy.
absolution comes to none
like they--
like me.
dark souls--
Good God, now me!
eyes. cataract-blind.
fingers numb.
teeth ache.
no way to cleanse
the blood.
putrid. dirty. wretches.
eating marrow
from the bone!
--
Wretched me!
I'm eating marrow
from the bone.
all gone hollow inside.
no gore can ease the agony.
moldering away.
rotting.
a zombie, a zombie.
don't you wish you were
undead like me?
