Parasite

by DarkNDangerous   Jul 2, 2019


I feel the flesh become weak,
The brain becoming hollow.
It’s hiding you seek,
So, I crawl out to swallow.

Let those dark thoughts enter,
Let them lurk and reside.
I can be your mentor,
Make you swallow your pride.

As your dark passenger, I haunt.
Slither up your innocent chapel.
What you crave, I don’t want.
So, bite into that apple.

Try to push me away,
Forget I exist.
But you are my prey,
A parasite, I persist.

Your being will be mine,
I don’t mind waiting.
You see, I’ve been here for some time,
Is it me or you that you're hating?

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  • 5 years ago

    by Milly Hayward

    Delightfully creepy. I can't think of anything more unsettling than being infested by a sentient parasite. Works really well in this rhymed form. Milly x

  • 5 years ago

    by Poet on the Piano

    Last line: "your" should be "you're"

    Loved the format of this, the consistent rhyme and that almost "peskiness" of this haunting, this realization that this person cannot push you away. The reflection of what hate means, self-hate is its own monster.

    When I noticed what category this poem was in, that gave even more depth. Depression can mask everything we thought we knew about ourselves. It can latch onto the absolute worst, the darkest nights, and try to convince us there is nothing else.

    Powerful write!

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