She

Greg Schwartz

 

She stands in a field of black roses

Waiting for me.

She beckons with a skeletal finger,

And I shiver.

Eyes that are not there bore into me,

Sinking like claws into my brain.

“Come with me....”

From beyond the grave she reaches out,

Stronger than I ever was.

A hot, dry wind picks up as she nears me,

Yet somehow I am soaked.

A fleshless hand reaches up to caress my face

And I wake up,

Drenched in midnight sweat.

 

 

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