Challenge
Prose Challenge of the Week #24: Using a minimum word count of 10, maximum word count of 250, Write a piece about GREED. The winner will be chosen 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. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge
Venomous Seed
You slither like a viper into my shade
gorging voraciously, devouring my core
imprisoning with your gluttonous greed.
Eating away at my world by inches
your serpent indulgence rapacious
you won’t stop until you’ve consumed me
swallowed me whole, a lump in your gut.
Your vile undulating was not invited -
why steal the shoes of my existence?
Slinking snake-like to poison my identity
corkscrewing my reality with entangled nape
subjugated by greed of your venomous seed
lurking in grass to sink fangs into my soul.
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