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Stalking Marla
Day after day I follow you
I know where you go I know what you do
I run with you jogging and I breathe in your sweat
Recalling the morning when we first could have met
I watch from the trees when you get undressed
So innocent once but now I’m obsessed
I know that you sense that there’s something wrong
I strongly suspect you’ve known all along
Each afternoon I send you flowers
I pluck the petals to count the hours
Until such a time when we’re face to face
Just you and me in that violent place
I call you all night just to keep you awake
I send you pictures of you that I take
I hang dead rabbits onto your front door
Gifts of affection drip down to the floor
You can’t cross the street without looking behind
Searching for someone who’s inside your mind
You run to your car when you leave your work
A dark parking lot where my footsteps lurk
I lie in my bed pretending you’re here
Gazing into those eyes that I most revere
There are pictures of you that cover my wall
And I feel myself as I touch them all
I fill up the air I flow everywhere
Wherever you are I’ll always be there
I’ll burn down your house and kill all your friends
Your family will grieve when this story ends
It’s not about lust I chase for the thrill
Controlling your life by breaking your will
I can’t fight these urges I won’t stop the hunt
Marla forgive me I must have what I want
You cry and you tremble unable to sleep
Jumping a mile at the slightest peep
Terror is waiting right under your bed
Reality’s worse when it’s all in your head
You lock all the doors but still I get in
And with it the nightmares of where I have been
I rove through your bedroom and smell all your clothes
I leave on your pillow a single black rose
It gives me such pleasure to know that you hurt
To see how you suffer and treat you like dirt
I knew when I saw you I picked the right one
Stalking you Marla has been so much fun
I crawl through the window on a shadowless night
I step like a panther and stay out of sight
Downstairs there’s a noise but you’re too scared to check
It’s only your cat I strung up by its neck
I’ve waited so long for this perfect day
To make you all mine to have you my way
The petals are counted the hour is near
Marla I whisper your stalker is here
Your sanity questions can it be what you think
You’re not sure what you see but you can’t even blink
Scream for me Marla scream til you cry
Til what’s left of you just wants to die
So how will this end should I let you choose
In heaven we’ll watch our deaths on the news
I'll keep coming back but you won’t know when
To haunt you forever again and again
Someday you will sleep all safe and alone
No longer afraid of what is unknown
Still you may wonder if you were just dreaming
But when your eyes open you will start screaming
I know where you go I know what you do
I run with you jogging and I breathe in your sweat
Recalling the morning when we first could have met
I watch from the trees when you get undressed
So innocent once but now I’m obsessed
I know that you sense that there’s something wrong
I strongly suspect you’ve known all along
Each afternoon I send you flowers
I pluck the petals to count the hours
Until such a time when we’re face to face
Just you and me in that violent place
I call you all night just to keep you awake
I send you pictures of you that I take
I hang dead rabbits onto your front door
Gifts of affection drip down to the floor
You can’t cross the street without looking behind
Searching for someone who’s inside your mind
You run to your car when you leave your work
A dark parking lot where my footsteps lurk
I lie in my bed pretending you’re here
Gazing into those eyes that I most revere
There are pictures of you that cover my wall
And I feel myself as I touch them all
I fill up the air I flow everywhere
Wherever you are I’ll always be there
I’ll burn down your house and kill all your friends
Your family will grieve when this story ends
It’s not about lust I chase for the thrill
Controlling your life by breaking your will
I can’t fight these urges I won’t stop the hunt
Marla forgive me I must have what I want
You cry and you tremble unable to sleep
Jumping a mile at the slightest peep
Terror is waiting right under your bed
Reality’s worse when it’s all in your head
You lock all the doors but still I get in
And with it the nightmares of where I have been
I rove through your bedroom and smell all your clothes
I leave on your pillow a single black rose
It gives me such pleasure to know that you hurt
To see how you suffer and treat you like dirt
I knew when I saw you I picked the right one
Stalking you Marla has been so much fun
I crawl through the window on a shadowless night
I step like a panther and stay out of sight
Downstairs there’s a noise but you’re too scared to check
It’s only your cat I strung up by its neck
I’ve waited so long for this perfect day
To make you all mine to have you my way
The petals are counted the hour is near
Marla I whisper your stalker is here
Your sanity questions can it be what you think
You’re not sure what you see but you can’t even blink
Scream for me Marla scream til you cry
Til what’s left of you just wants to die
So how will this end should I let you choose
In heaven we’ll watch our deaths on the news
I'll keep coming back but you won’t know when
To haunt you forever again and again
Someday you will sleep all safe and alone
No longer afraid of what is unknown
Still you may wonder if you were just dreaming
But when your eyes open you will start screaming
Published 6th Jan 2013
| Edited 30th Jun 2015
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6th Jan 2013 8:21pm
Ahh, fear is only in the mind. I got that from this wonderful poem, a great flow and written so well.
Good luck with the comp. :)
Good luck with the comp. :)
6th Jan 2013 9:04pm
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6th Jan 2013 8:55pm
I love your poems.
:D
Lovely entry, good luck :)
:D
Lovely entry, good luck :)
7th Jan 2013 2:43am
7th Jan 2013 3:30pm
A cold clinical insight into an obsessive mind.
Technically good, but lacked humanity.
Technically good, but lacked humanity.
7th Jan 2013 9:11pm
Never watched 'Criminal minds', but having been in the Medical trade most my life, started in a Morgue, I would say that you got it right. I had never thought of it this way before but a lot of Clinicians show the same mental detachment.
7th Jan 2013 7:40pm
8th Jan 2013 3:22pm
Cool and unique.Quite the blood-rush and a gold rush of rhythm and verse.
27th Jan 2013 6:14am
Holy shit, I love this. I don't normally enjoy poems that rhyme, but this was expressed so well and clear. I really fell for the sickness and darkness, as well as the message regarding fear, itself. Wonderfully narrated.
7th Apr 2013 3:34am
4th Jul 2013 5:44pm
Ooooh i loves me a good stalker poem.. Excellent, dark and creepy.. I very much enjoyed reading this
12th Sep 2013 11:36pm
A masterpiece. I fed off the relish for the hunt inferred through your words. :)
Proof that simple rhyme schemes are only as limited as the person who pens the piece.
Proof that simple rhyme schemes are only as limited as the person who pens the piece.
19th Mar 2017 1:08am
I did enjoy reading this minus the hanging of the rabbit and cat. I know they are just dark words . The stalking feels so real. Maybe you should stalk me! ;)
2nd Oct 2019 7:36pm
