By Scott Cameron
Breath creeps in
Evading white guardians
Slithering ever downwards
Blackened lungs scream
Silent grieving lips
Leak caustic air
Putrid breeze intrudes
Worming within alveoli
Oxydising voided blood
Corroding tender flesh
Revealing petrified omens
Ligaments embracing bone
Decomposing maternal instincts
Hallowed eyes reach
Embracing uninhabited offspring
Breathing his last
Relinquishing his soul
Resting his limbs
Artist Bio:
Cameron Scott is Matilda-nominated actor, writer, and stage manager hailing from the mountains of North Brisbane. As an actor he is currently training in his 3rd year of QUT’s BFA (Acting) having previously trained in NIDA’s Open program. He has performed in Crow’s Nest (The Velvet Collective + Travelling Rose Theatre), Platform (QUT Acting) and How To Vote (Underground Theatre Company) throughout his studies, and is the current treasurer of Underground Theatre. He has recently decided this wasn’t nearly enough, and has joined ScratchThat to develop his writing and poetry as well.