The Ladies of Horror
Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge!

Dark 
by Kendra Smart  

The leaves are green.

Your smile is warm.

Safe, like a locked door.

Comforting like the linen fresh from the dryer.

It has been a spontaneously good day.

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The leaves are golden.

The air seems to be on fire.

My body no longer moves on my command.

It has betrayed me.

Just as you have.

I couldn’t trust your eyes.

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The leaves are red.

Like this haze over my vision.

Now as it was then.

Though I much prefer the rose colored lense of my naivety.

I didn’t feel the fear of prey until it was too late for anything.

A calculated reaction.

Your lies.

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ThE lEaVeS aRe MeRgInG.

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Will anyone miss me?

Do they even know I am gone?

How long have I been gone?

It feels like only hours…but can I trust a failing body?

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Is ThE kNiFe StIlL iN mE?

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I feel I have traced the leaves’ veins and watched the flow of their colors as they change.

Such a happy little tree.

But they mock me, silent whispers of air.

We are not the only ones who fall.

You should have taken more care.

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Who fell for the smile?

Who challenged the primal fear?

Who let that man inside?

Hold him in the vision fine tuned for your blind eye.

That smile was laced with warning.

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SuCh A wIcKeD gAmE.

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The leaves are fluttering…or is that your heart?

No.

Your heart’s in his hand.

The world goes…

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DaRk.

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Fiction © Copyright Kendra Smart
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from author Kendra Smart:

Just Emotions:
A Gothic Bite Magazine Anthology

A collection of poetry.

‘Just Emotions‘ is exactly as it states, a group of writers who had feelings they wanted to express in poem form. Inside, there are a range of emotions to explore. Each writer has given a bit of themselves to you, each in their own way.

We hope that you enjoy these writings and that among the poems you may find some thing you can identify with or relate to. Thank you for giving us this chance to open the catacombs and share with you.

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