RunA Poem by TaraYour eyes are open But you can't see Your back is against the wall And your legs are against your chest You want to whisper But whatever is scuffling out there Might not be a friend You calm your breathing Hold in the tears And hide the whimper The scuffling is quieter You go onto your hands and knees And start to quietly Crawl Your hands slowly brush across the floor Tense Ready to pull back at any second Your hand touches something You pull away quickly You freeze Nothing happens You touch whatever it is It's cold But soft You brush over it You feel an item of clothing You move your hands Hair? Nose? Mouth? Eyes? You jump back Your knees land in something Your hand investigates It's a liquid Quite thick Smells odd Maybe a leaky drain of some sort? You move away from the -corpse- And go around Away from the scuffling You feel something else Hard Cold Strong And shaped like a club You keep it Could be used as a weapon You come to a solid And realise it's a wall The room isn't large You stand up And shuffle across the wall Trying to find a door A window An exit An escape The scuffling stops And you hear tearing And ripping And squelching You know what's happening But you don't want to accept it So you carry on around the room Hoping the -Scuffler- Is distracted And full enough Again The scuffling stops You hear nothing And then you feel something on your leg Moving up you You freeze A wet Tongue? Slides up your arm And across your face A breath fans across your face The lights turn on Now Where are you going to run?
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