Title: venom in the veins
Fandom: The Originals
Rating: Teen and Up
Length: 62
Summary: In New Orleans, people come and people go. Drinks are high and the shadows slink low.

 

the act is murder.

is taking of hands

- living, learning

guiders of growing -

and stilling.

stilling is not the word of it.

stilling is a peace

a quietude

a slow unwinding

into silence, still.

halting, grabbing

grinding, gauging,

and bringing to

a scrabble, stumble

senseless, stop.

that is the act

that happened here.

that is the act,

and it disappears