Failure

It happened again.

everytime you believe you will prevail, something will always rip your leg and watch you bleed.

this time, your in a field of snow. Cold, unrelenting snow. As wolves in the distance await for you to stop breathing.

Yet there was one more force. In the distance.

looming over, an unfathomable formation of tar and heat. A shadow in this blizzard

“You failed again, haven’t you?” it states, drawing closer but voice never growing louder.

“Never knew when you quit haven’t you? Never knew when to stop and look at you now. Laying in a bed of frozen ice to keep me from burning you alive.”

no utter came from your lips. But the salty burns on your cheek felt like cracks.

“You can’t even slither lies as fluently. Perhaps you really did lose your sense of mind. Well, I don’t expect you to get up anytime soon, so go ahead and be the slug you always wanted to become. I’ll just watch as the salt kills you from the inside.”

Your face scrunched, like rubber making a squeaky noise before your other cheek cracks open.

“Pouting, as usual. Let’s see how long that will last until you are pieces to be preserved for scavengers.”

he isn’t lying either. Vultures, quite opportunistic, even in weather that will kill them. Foxes, swift, but deadly. Wolves, as a group, will tear you asunder.

but they won’t get near anytime soon

“Arrogance. That’s always been your forte. Yet you fail to see how much it guts you. Your failures, your shortcomings, and petty rejections. But never have you stopped to think about why they happened?”