Moonsong Glacier ulalume

nothing. her reflection does nothing. just stares, hunched over her like a mourner at a funeral. face reading nothing. eyes showing nothing. just like her.

she is nothing. nothing. nothing.

pleading snaps to fury in an instant. her eyes flash cold fire, her lips curling up to reveal teeth stained with blood. the tattered hunk of flesh that is her tongue protrudes, then retreats, snakelike. she is bristling fire.

leave, her visage reads, though her body is too weak to back it up. leave me alone.

alone

with nothing.

i am nothing.

leave me!