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Unexpected Guest
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As I lay upon my chamber bed,
I stare into my eyelids half-dead.

Feeling uneasy, I realize I'm not alone. I have a visitor within this very room. They lay next to me, upon my place of slumber. I can feel their eyes locked onto me, burning away at me. Watching me. They don't hold their breather as they take the air in and out calmly, pushing their breeze upon me. Oh, how cold and empty was the air that left their lungs, so much so that chills ran through my body. Feeling tense, I could feel myself start to sweat. An eternity seemed to pass me by as I waited for something to happen. Finally, with my vision still shut, I began to "sleepily" turn away, and then immediatly after, towards my fear. They stopped breathing but continued to watch me, their eyes staring at me unblinkingly. Feeling a moment of courage, I open my eyes.

The moon so full brought forth light,
So that I may experience site.

To my shock, there was no one. There lie only a clock to greet my eyes. Confused and uneasy, I sit straight up and scan the room with my vision. To my disbeliefe I saw no one. I glanced at the window and door to find them shut still. Unsatisfied, I check and floor, and with caution, under the bed as well.

I saw the world before me,
An illusion and dream.

Just as I sigh with relief, I take a gasp. Like drums I hear my heart beat, just as I catch something in the corner of my eye. Faster and faster doth thy heart beat, as thine eyes set upon thy mirror from across. I stare at the reflection from it's top, and slowly make my way down. As my eyes go farther and farther down, I continue to hold my breathe. My heart continues to beat faster and faster, telling me not to look. But my foolish eyes continue on past my chest. They gaze at the reflection of the top of the bed and pause for a moment.

Oh how I wished I had just died right there,
So that I may not witness The World Fair.

In an instant, my eyes darted to the reflection of under my bed. Immedietly chocking with fear, I gasp for more air as my eyes open wider. Staring back as me, I could see those eyes unblinkingly watching me. I could see them burning me. I started to blink, hoping they would go away. When my eyes opened I tried to scream but couldn't. I tried to cry but I forgot how. My mouth was a drout. My ears had gone mute. My nose burned with the smell of rotting meat. Staring back at me were still those eyes but now with a face. In the mirror, I saw before me a pale little girl with smiling blue lips. My eyes stared into hers and then upon her crimson dress. I again tried to scream at the site I saw with these cursed eyes. She had no stomach.

But witness I did the performance they staged,
Laughing at me in the cage.

I could see her flesh drooling blood. Her bones hung out like the fangs of a beast. Hoping this was not real, I tried to blink again. I tried, but couldn't. In an instant before, tentacles had grasped me from the jaws of death. She... it, was dragging me into the mirror. I stared at it in utter horror. I felt Hell. My ears blead at the sound of the tentacles crushing and grinding the bones of my limbs. I watched as I heard my flesh tear from my body and be consumed. I tried to blink but I still could not. As my bleeding body passed through the mirror and entered the belly of the beast, I felt a tentacle wrap around my head and squeeze. Again I tried to blink, and I did.

As I lay upon my chamber bed,
I shed a tear in their stead.

End.