consumed

 

 

 

the room filled with white empty promises

seeping from the walls are drops of false hope

 

her eyes are bursting with color

pupils are stretching with happiness

 

the leech is crawling into her hand

it is latching to her palm

it is moving, searching

 

it grows bigger 

the stomach of the creature filling quickly with the happiness she carries

 

her smile begins to crack as the leech grows larger

her eyes twitch and her skin rolls over on top of itself

 

the creature is covering her arm at whole

reaching up to the neck of the youth

the tips of her mouth are caving in

her smile is fading

her eyes are black

 

the creature triples around her chest

she is suffocating; her smile is falling into the fold of a frown

she is becoming sick

 

eyes filling to the merge of tears 

the interior of her is drowning

she has stopped breathing

 

the creature latches onto her waist

it begins to squeeze; tighter and tighter

 

she isn't happy anymore

she is consumed

becoming nothing but a small pit inside the depth of the leech

 

but this is what she thought she wanted

for the room was only the world

and the leech was only her mind