The Tapeworm, 2018

part 3 of the Trilogy of Terror series

Four Years

In four years 

The transformation was near completion 

You were changing me 

Through endless stories

and little lies 

But it was through bodily exchange 

Where I felt you 

But I couldn't accept you from behind 

Instead I welcomed you orally 

 

I thought it would just past 

Instead it incubated 

And became alive inside me 

Feeding 

Growing 

Wasting 

I was infected by you

 

Slowly,

I was becoming you 

I tried to protect myself before entering 

But you insisted it had to be raw 

It couldn't be stopped 

The tapeworm took over me 

And I was enslaved 

Dedicated to you 

 

Until now

I was you 

Thinking 

Acting 

Talking like you 

But I physically fought back 

And expelled you from my body

 

You could never hurt me again 

But unfortunately 

I can still feel you 

As your first host, 

the original body 

Is trying impregnate 

Younger and similar versions of me.

It's lost

Searching for a host 

Because it couldn't let go of its former skin

 

I go on 

Losing blood 

And shedding skin 

As the metamorphosis begins 

I will hurt no more