DECIDEDLY DODGY

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Brandishing a long knife
She lunged at me
Thrusting forward
Severing my flesh.

I screamed
As blood poured from my wound
Staining the carpet
Forming a pool.

Yet she did not relent
Again and again
Plunging forth
Puncturing my organs.

Collapsed in a heap
Struggling for breath
As blankness arrives
With the comfort of death.