Black Widow

Do you miss me?
The Black Widow
Your beautiful and ugly thing?
Do you miss her dark and forgotten
Lullabies she strummed on silver strings?

Do you miss when she skinned
You alive with her words?
Swallowing you whole
Hiding arsenic so well
Like a sugar pill?

Do you miss hell's mistress?
Shoving a knife in your back
While you begged for the trap?
Isn't she a lucky catch?

As new life springs up within you
And your eight-legged little beastie
With an abdomen like a gooseberry
Wants to fill the void inside

You shake violently and spastically
The Black Widow spider whispers in
Your ear keeping magic secrets
That end tragically like a witch

Drinking magic potions
The moonlight is here again
Let's dress up again for the night
And climb from the walls
Of insecurities and doubts
Forget what fate has given us

As you slip from her legs like an apparition
She breathes with piercing fangs
And cannot say your name
Like a fly, you yawn and drift asleep
With peace and serenity, she licks her lips

I crawled into your heart
Like a black, black, black widow
Weaving a web of charm and deceit

During those sleepless nights
Producing painful bites
Were you ever safe from harm?
You could never do without my special poison
How it repulses with such mad delight!

Alexis Child hails from Toronto, Canada; home to dreams and nightmares. Alexis is a former Social Service Worker, befriending the demons that roam freely amongst her writings. She had a small measure of underground success with her gothic rock and darkwave bands in the past. Besides having rare mystical experiences she hopes are not just short circuits in the brain, she offers Tarot Readings and writes poetry and fiction, starving in the garret with her muse. A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire is even worse. Please donate non-perishable food items and B-negative blood (and make it a double!).

Alexis' fiction has been featured in Danse Macabre, Schlock, Screams of Terror, and U.K.'s Dark of Night Magazine. Her poetry has been featured in numerous online and print publications, including Aphelion, The Horror Zine, Illumen, Metaphysical Times, Night to Dawn, ParABnormal Magazine, The Sirens Call and elsewhere. Her first collection of poetry, Devil in the Clock, a dark and sinister slice of the macabre is available on Amazon. Her second collection of poetry, Singing the Bones, is available on Amazon and from Cyberwit Publishing. Her third collection of poetry, Exquisite Corpse, is coming soon. You have been warned...

Visit her website: http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/alexischild/ and her YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg6S5u4yX73kA1ZWGnKaEBA/videos

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