Shadow

shadows are moving in

from across time,

fear wrestles away

the security you've contained,

keeping the animals at bay.

...some life.



nothing takes me back quite like that,

when i'd rather be dead, than to feel it again,

it sickens.

i wonder how i don't  recall

the reasons why i wanted to forget

in the first place.

pride is a tough thing to swallow,

under the edge of it's blade,

have i bled.



whatever you call it, crawls through me

like an entity of consumption, and empty rewards.

the whole never rests, as it struggles to become

itself, again.



silence has it's own story to tell, within,

i get, emptier,

as the worm makes me hollow,

dead as the words that relate, how i suffer

the sorrow of sentimental obscurity.

[ in shadow ]


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