Watching Her World Burn Down

Caught in the blaze...

 

She wakes up and screams

Her mind is bleeding

From the thousands of needles

Behind her eyes

 

She throws herself toward the door

And the handle sears against her skin

White-hot and branding

Leaving her no means of escape

Her lungs are suffocating her

There is no air in the room

The thickness of the recycled oxygen

Pervades her body as she falls

The atmosphere is scorching

Like walking barefoot on molten glass

She reaches weakly for the window

And presses her face against the cool glass

 

They’re leisurely encroaching

The intruders slowly approaching

And their burning red eyes glow

With the crimson blaze of their hate

 

She coughs and struggles to get out

But there is no way now…

She lays there, slowly dying
Watching the world burn down