Its black legs tickle across my shoulders

I rush to brush it 

off, crush it

and go back to reading.

I look up and see a black body frantically crawling across the wall

Spiders

Scurry out of the 

sunken cracks. 

Paranoid, as I am

I feel them all over

I try to 

Sweep the spiders off

They are infesting my brain 

They keep coming in

Crawling through my skin

Wanting to sink their venomous fangs into me

I feel like I’m suffocating

There must be a way out of this hell

Their eyes are watching me 

Preying on me,

Trapping me,

Consuming me, the wide-eyed girl who just wanted to be their friends

Never did I want to frighten them

Nevertheless, 

They fill my abdomen

and build webs in my brain