First to Know (Beginning of the End)

He was the first to see it happen
A horror story before him
Death the wicked
Stealing lives with sickness

Rumours made the waves
But he was the only one to know
Second breaths a terror
Ugliness washed the once clean
In gore and twisted limbs
The goal was unconscious
No they didn’t know
It was impossible for them
Cannibalism, flesh eaters
It was their death
They changed instantly
All this because of it

What else could he do
He knew what was
But also what had to be
The world moved on around him
Behind him lay hallucinations
Behind him lay science fiction
Next to him stood reality
Plain as day but no less frightening
Armed with only glimpses of sanity
And a double edged knife
His mission was simple
To live, to stay, to not be changed

Quick movements
A burst, once fluid filled eye
A weeping of gelatinous white
Then a flow of thickening maroon
Down fell the monstrosity
Down fell love, safety
Down fell all that was.