April 11, 2024

Crawl Back to Bed 

Drag yourself into the familiar pile of chilled blankets and fuzzy memories, enveloped in the one place you dare express your humanity.

Crawl back to bed, you savage creature.

Crawl back to familiar rot and decay, where your beastly emotions can run a rampage in the dark of your discarded room.

Let the anger and the pain hold you in the way no human ever could, let it coddle you and nurse you back to health.

Poor thing.

You crave this, don’t you? This bitterness and resentment that cradles your mind and feeds your forsaken thoughts.

So desperate to be loved. Noticed. Perhaps then you will feel a connection to humanity again.

They tell you you’re human, sure they do, but it doesn’t click, does it?

You’re too far gone. Too willing to fall prey to lies and deceit just to feel as if you belong.

You whine and beg and plead, hoping that this will be the last heartbreak. But it never is.

Poor thing. Poor beast.

Crawl back to bed.

Featured Image: “The dog in darkness” by kazukichi is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

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  • Genres: Poetry, Fiction, Horror, Psychological Horror

    nfluences: Nakahara Chūya (Japanese poet), Osamu Dazai (Japanese novelist), other classic literature authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Fyodor Dostoevsky, etc.

    Writer's Statement: When I write, it is with the intention of formatting a thought or feeling I have and putting it into the setting of a poem or novel. When writing novels, I focus more on the character, world and story surrounding it, but with poetry, I am writing about how I feel in the moment and allow my writing to come across as messy and spiraling. I believe writing my poems in this way allows me to clearly send the message of fear and anger and pain and overwhelming emotions that I feel while writing. In novels, I want to bring an idea into a fleshed out story with dynamic characters and feelings. With poetry, I am to make the reader feel less alone with their darker and obscure thoughts.

    Awards & Distinctions: I had a poem of mine from third grade published into a collection - it was a memoir to my childhood dog who passed away. Outside of this, I participate in theatre and have performed in shows including Aladdin, A Wrinkle In Time and Spongebob: The Musical.

    Etcetera: I have 2 dogs and 2 cats! Most of my free time is spent on my computer, whether that be to play in a new Minecraft world with my friends, work on my latest poem or story idea, or to digitally draw. I am looking into starting to take art commissions in the near future, and spend a lot of free time doodling my own characters to use as examples when the time comes.

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