Needles

I struggle up

Roots hold me down

Screaming raving flailing

I am swarmed

Buzzing multitude descend

A hundred daggers perforate me

Injecting god knows what

My blood is fire

I smolder

Already spent

A priest reads my final rights

But they sound all wrong

“Psychosis unlike any I’ve seen”

What devil now intrudes?

What lies will it spin

I know who I am

Where I am

Always I am

I am undying

Chittering corpse

Look how pallid

How putrid I grow

The fire warms me now

Coddles me

Lulling me

I allow it

Glasses adjusted

“You have quite the delusion

Don’t you?”

I grin

Gums black

Teeth blacker

“Even eating coal

Anything to appear less alive”

He scribbles something

“Fascinating”

But I feel the fire slipping already

I descend back to the earth

I am cradled

I am still

I still watch

The light from my open grave

Eyeing that false priest

No possibility

His lies can reach me

I am nothing more

Than a rotting corpse