Ravenous

She stands at the edge of the clearing,
sun lighting her hair on fire,
gripping at the hole in her belly.

Behind her,
the world decays.

She reaches into herself
as the blackness spreads across her skin,
consuming her,
consuming this reality.

She screams.

Silently at first,
her hair flowing,
shaking,
trembling as an earthquake
violently tears away at her,
but then there is audio to this madness,
and banshees are forced to cover their ears.

She tears away at her own demise,
breaking the world,
shredding herself out of desperation.

Blackness breaks and cracks
as her skin crumbles and is pulled inside
-- into the darkness that is all consuming,
that is her.

Her eyes close for the briefest moment
before returning,
two frozen lakes of mercury.

She haunts this world,
these dreams,
long after it has all been pulled in,
stretched out,
and devoured.