Tanya by Ariel Childers

Tanya

by Ariel Childers

She let the hot pink pain

wrap round her throat

so many hungry tentacles

wearing them like ribbons

to shine wetly

dully i

n the uncertain morning air.

But because she wore them

with such a winsome smile

other commented on her beauty

not so much blind

but unwilling to see

that all the while she was suffocating.