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The Mummy

The curse

By Mark Stigers Published 2 years ago • Updated 2 years ago • 1 min read

If you disturb my sleep,

then you will awaken my curse.

After you, I will creep,

and do to you my worst.

I am the ever-living.

How do you stop the dead?

I come, unforgiving,

to fill your mind with dread.

In bandages I am preserved.

You cannot see my skin.

Through rituals my priest observed,

my life will never end.

If I come after you,

relent, I will not.

There is little you can do

to escape what I’ve got

A horror I am.

You dare not enter my tomb.

You will suffer death by my hand,

as behind you I loom.

surreal poetry

About the Creator

Mark Stigers

One year after my birth sputnik was launched, making me a space child. I did a hitch in the Navy as a electronics tech. I worked for Hughes Aircraft Company for quite a while. I currently live in the Saguaro forest in Tucson Arizona

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    Written by Mark Stigers