Contest Winner: Zombie Desire, a poem

Written for a Writer's Cramp contest

Written to the prompt: Write a story or poem involving two zombies in love.


ZOMBIE DESIRE
(20 lines)

It’s only in the darkest hour,
The desolate cry of night,
When blackness clings to shadows
Before the coming light

That in unholy union
We shed our wretched lot,
Pretend that we are living,
Forget what death has wrought.

We come together slowly
With tenderness and pain,
Longing for just one more chance
To stoke our souls again.

With fingertips unfeeling
And lips long lost of lust,
Hips laid bare to flesh and bone
And memory’s faintest thrust,

We struggle in each other’s arms
Grapple in a desperate clutch
Not for the fire of love itself
But for its sacred touch

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