Evening In The Woods

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Cold trees of green and white

Chilled winds howl and whine

A clearing void of grass

Deep marks scraped in stone


You stand alone, lost

Searching for your home

Heart beating much too fast

Eyes flicker over bones


A voice from everywhere at once

echoes through your head

Come close, my dear

It whispers, distorted


You turn, fearfully,

and see nothing,

nothing but the

onsetting fog


Hollowed sockets

stare from a rotting skull

and sharp daggers for claws

drag from gaunt arms

onto the forest floor


It hungers.


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