Scratch

walk in the dark
down a silent street
the streetlights are glaring pale orange suns
casting everything in their hateful hue
and it feels like the stones of the sidewalk
are all unwritten tombstones
but you can hear them
rolling around
and moaning
in despair
the cars roar off in the distance
sound as if the gates of hell had opened and
satan's army is chasing you
there is malice in the air
and you are more afraid than you've ever been in your whole life
you're sure that
your heart is
about to
flat
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you will never be safe again when
the halloween pumpkins on your porch sneer like
demons knowing your demise
and you have to be quiet or they'll
hear you
oh god, they'll
hear you
the houses across the street conceal monsters, malefactors
a few satanic sacrifical torture cults,
some serial killers/rapists, the general pyschopaths, or
maybe even slenderman himself
everyone knows that killers are quiet
so be absolutely silent
or they will
surely
hear
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you should have stayed inside
now you can’t find your happy place
just a place where people can’t stop sweating
and their hearts are in the backs of their throats
. b
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oh god, they'll
hear you
you are breathing way too loudly
and coughing up a trail of blood
for the hounds of hell
to follow
you’re wearing a choker of jingling fear
each step echoes like a dying breath of a bad memory
motion sensor spotlights screech on and off like blinking harpy banshees
and the leaves blowing down the road sounds
like the marching of the god of death coming to
get you, oh god he
heard you
and suddenly the street is flooded with your worst fear
everyone heard you
coughing out
your hopes
and d
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the only thing worse than things seeming to move
by
too
fast is when things suddenly
sit
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and you are a spider, dead in the web, torn
apart by little bugs