HORROR Poem: Surgery, by Alexandra Shandrenko

The blade slides in, a silky smooth tear,
Skin splits open, raw and bare.
Exposed fat oozes, the slick red meat,
Muscle snaps apart—a butchered beat.

Wet suction groans, blood spills thick,
Tsunamis of crimson, alarmingly quick,
When tissue rips like rotted thread,
The air reeks of iron and lead.

Each cut, a scream the flesh can’t keep,
The body shudders, wounds run deep.

Fingers pull apart and pick,

Steel scrapes bone with a jagged click.

Finally the scariest moment to be fall,

The silence in the room is what says it all.