Fingers are bleeding~
splattering smells of iron and nickel.
Breathing erratic~
sharp and painful in my vanishing chest.
Heart rapidly pounding~
hard against the decaying bones.
Fingers harbor slivers of wood~
a suffocating lid unwilling to break.
Breathing slowing~
air is stale and sour of my soils.
Heart sputtering~
rupturing amongst the void of me.
Fingers numbing from constantly raking~
of an endless battle landing defeat on lifeless limbs.
Breathing unsuccessful~
the grand design starving in slavery of oxygen.
Heart is..............