Fourteen Steps to Nowhere

Entry Five

Don't Make Me Travel

I hate that familiar feeling

and the world around me

trickling to a halt.

Call me a traveler,

name me your gypsy

but don't make me

travel to that place again.

Those dirt walls

aren't strong enough

to hold me,

and I can't lie down

and stare at the moon

as the worms

eat my brain

and my body dances

to the macabre tune

of eternal night.

I can't let those

long-dead ghosts

possess me

and turn my lips

and my teeth

into automatic cannibals.

Call me your traveler

name me your gypsy

but don't make me

travel to that place again.

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