The woman

Sparked up inspiration on the way to class one day. Super raw and unedited, but I needed to get it down.

She frightens me
An old woman in the night
Walking down my street, she haunts me.
Every wrinkle
          Every crevice
                     Every stare

She controls me in the dark
Forces me into nightmares
Disrupts my normalcy
Her cold touch shivers my spinal cord into sharp blades
Piercing my skin in
                               Perfect
                               Vertical
                                 Rows

She awakens me, at some ungodly hour of dawn
Threatening of a shadow over the day
She follows me into the twilight glare, in front of a reflection
Touching my imperfections
                Piece by
                   P
                     I
                       E
                         C
                           E

She raises her hand with mine
Grazing her bones eerily across my lips, my hair, my hips
Her touch so familiar, it's unmistakable
For she is me, I am her
The old woman that frightens me so
Is me
The future has come
So why is she 
R U N N I N G


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Author's Note

raw and unedited

Reviews

[katy]

I really love the way you used line breaks and spacing to put emphasis on the important parts. The beginning is very strong and makes me want to keep reading. I don't quite understand the ending. I'm not sure if it is supposed to be ominous or thought provoking. It seems rushed, but this is the raw piece, so it is expected. Overall I like it a lot!

[D.]

Interesting is always good in my book.

[Mauricio Montoya]

Interesting piece it leaves you to wonder who this woman is, will there be a part two, great job in putting this write together. Keep on writing.

[w]

interesting formating

[Btwixer]

Boy I can relate to this write. Simply wonderful