toandfro

I’m doing nothing, then something 

A sound, something hitting the floor 

A meaty slumping, a weighty hefty thud 

Clipped, local thunder, directly under

He felt, the stricken site, he sighed 

And sought stairs to higher

Up he went like a spiral, them winding 

Crisscrossing like bones on a pirate

Ship’s flag, his courage flagging 

His nerves stabbing him with flight instinct

Trying and failing to instil wisdom 

In the sorry sinner 

In thinner air he approached the door 

Unaware that in a moment more

He would become the first rate dinner 

Of same unnamed, unknowable horror.

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