Challenge
Prose Challenge of the Week #8: Write a Haiku or Tanka about the supernatural. The winner will be chosen by Prose based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. Winner will receive $100.
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dem0ns
As the dark night falls
I look inside a strange soul
Just to see, lurking
There, barely hidden
A monster I recognized
None other than me
I reached inside it
Digging amidst the shrill screams
To dig from deep in
To rip it all out
And just as night falls again--
I wake up, covered
In sweat and in blood
My heart outside in a glass
A rotten heart of
Black monsters and all
The things that we have feared, now
Sinking into me
As I scream, unheard
By a loud, ignorant world
The demons inside
Claw their way outside
The remains of a young boy
Emerging in a
Scattered, painful cry