Bright, white, clean-smelling room
Bed in the center, where I'm sulking in gloom
With nervous eyes, I look around
I can hardly move a muscle, so tightly I'm bound
*Click*
...
Suddenly it's dark...dark...dark...
And I hear Bloody Mary making her mark on
The mirror of glass in front of my bed
"Surely," I think, "they've left me for dead."
A gurgling scream rises up from my throat
Writhing around, I reach for the note that
Will safe me from her griping hands
But to my horror I grab some man's leg
That I know wasn't there before
Throwing it out I fall hard to the floor
It's following me as I run away
Oh, how I wish I had a way out
Of this room that they've locked me in,
Cell I've been stuck within
All of my life
And I see Mary coming for me with her knife
And this leg seems to have a life of its own
Why it's coming for me, I simply don't know
And I'm stuck, and I'm stuck, and I'm stuck, and I'm stuce
And I'm dead
...
Bed in the center, where I'm sulking in gloom
With nervous eyes, I look around
I can hardly move a muscle, so tightly I'm bound
*Click*
...
Suddenly it's dark...dark...dark...
And I hear Bloody Mary making her mark on
The mirror of glass in front of my bed
"Surely," I think, "they've left me for dead."
A gurgling scream rises up from my throat
Writhing around, I reach for the note that
Will safe me from her griping hands
But to my horror I grab some man's leg
That I know wasn't there before
Throwing it out I fall hard to the floor
It's following me as I run away
Oh, how I wish I had a way out
Of this room that they've locked me in,
Cell I've been stuck within
All of my life
And I see Mary coming for me with her knife
And this leg seems to have a life of its own
Why it's coming for me, I simply don't know
And I'm stuck, and I'm stuck, and I'm stuck, and I'm stuce
And I'm dead
...
Author notes
Written for a prompt in YPS: A man in an asylum did not recognize his leg of his own. When he saw it, he thought it was a severed leg lying next to him. When he threw it out of his bed, he fell out also. The prompt asked the writer to write a poem in the point of view of this man.
~Written on October 24, 2009
