A/N: I just got to say one thing. You know you're an obsessive fangirl when your best friend's kid brother introduces you to his friend as 'my older sister's best friend who is borderline romantically obsessed with Slenderman'. It was both flattering and insulting at the same time… I do love Slendy-kun though ;D Anyway I wrote this for my contemporary poetry class; the assignment was to write a poem describing a setting. So, naturally I wrote one about the dark, bloody forest friends of darling Slender, ha ha!
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Slender's Leafy Friends
Wander off the trodden path
Away from the road, out of sight
Keep those eyes aimed forward
Only glance from tree to tree, if that
Everywhere they've grown
Shooting up to block the sunshine
Arms spread out to envelope
Everything below in leafy darkness
Don't stop running when something
Slivers across your back, just in case
It wasn't one of those branches
Which might have grown longer since before
Ignore the screams you think are echoing
From behind that towering boulder
If they aren't your own then you
Know where not to be
The rising and falling of your chest
Seems oh so out of place
As your heart threatens to burst forth
And shatter the stillness of the trees
Somehow your feet have dragged you
Back to that forgotten, unpaved road
Is that a man standing twenty yards back,
His arms hanging limp at his side…?
Run, run, run, don't you dare look
Pretend for just a moment those trees
Aren't beckoning you onward and that
If you can just run fast enough…
You make an ill-fated turn and hit a fence
Dig your fingers into the cold metal pockets
The darkness seems to be closing in
And pulls the breath from the lungs
Branches wiggle, crawl, and wave
Until they don't look so much like trees anymore
And those inky black limbs yank you back in
Leading you back through the rotten leaves stained red