The Internal Twin

Inside my fertile mother, the egg fertilized

And from one egg, two individuals originated

A pair of identical twins began to grow

But in an unnatural quirk the embryos fused

And I absorbed my embryonical sibling into me

From my earliest fetal stages into adulthood

His displaced cells grew as I did

We matured together in the oddest ways

Together as one we were born to be

I grew up as a freak, a walking monstrosity

A living abnormality for scientific study

Tumorous growths on and in my body cause me pain

Of dermoid origins, these tumors are pieces of my brother

These teratomas sprout across my body

As my fragmented sibling develops from my torsos

My brother lives within

Inside lays the internal twin

My stomach contains rows of his teeth

Molars and incisors grow from the organ walls

And scalp hair clumps from external teratocarinomas

His bulbous eyeballs protrude from my right temple and ear

They twitch inside misshapen sockets

Sightless they roll and gaze into black

A toothless cartilage mouth opens from my chest

Its rubbery spasms will never speak a word

And his retarded raging thoughts I hear

He bellows and cries inside of my skull

His berserk, confused substratum shrieks drive me mad

His underdeveloped brain grows from mine

And his retarded raging thoughts I hear

He bellows and cries inside of my skull

Always he has shared my vital organs

My heart, my lungs, and pulsing blood

Since birth his survival has depended on me

His nurturing has me to thank

I am sorry brother I can no longer live like this

It is time to finally set you free

Subconscious echoes as my twin horrifically scrams

The surgeons' scalpels cut him out piece by piece