Poem: The Monster
Always throw salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender for luck. And fall in love, whenever you can. - 'Practical Magic'
The darkness
covers my body
like veil.
The monster calls
my name from the
riverbend as
the darkness
befriends my
troubled mind
I can feel its claws
on my very skin,
as I pray to Satan
to let it be known
my hands are covered
with sins.
My tongue stitched
with the very sign
of the cross
as Holy water
burns my lungs
I kiss the monster
on the lips,
no longer afraid
as it stares back
from a windowless
mirror.
I taste the strawberry
blood and lick my fingers
clean.
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