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Darkness
The lights go out darkness overcomes all,
Light suddenly recedes from the room,
A dark shroud suddenly descends,
Only light comes from outside,
Blackest of nights descends,
A nights worth of darkness...
Eyes rapidly adjust to the darkness,
Pupils grow wide for the light,
My eyelids suddenly grow too heavy,
I blink once then twice,
Sleep beckons quietly yet loudly,
I slowly close my eyes in surrender...
I am suddenly there in dreamland,
Dropped as thought by some means,
Nothing else around for miles,
Just endless horizons in all directions,
Lonely just me myself and I,
I suddenly inexorably wonder why...
I am alone all alone here,
Yet I am here to comfort,
I hear a voice suddenly say,
Looking in every which direction,
I cannot find the source,
I feel something at my feet....
Some blackness surrounding my leg,
Texture is sticky warm like tar,
I shake to get it off its still there
It binds tighter to my leg,
Sheer panic fills my mind,
Looking down I see it slowly creeping up....
I wonder what it is what can do this,
What is this unknown force,
What substance can this possibly be,
Where did it come from,
When I was alone but a minute ago,
What can this shit be....
Then faster it consumes me,
I open my mouth as if to scream,
It takes it as a signal to do more,
In an instant it moves all the way up,
Covering my neck face eyes
It totally swallows me up....
Pitch black darkness again,
I feel my body fighting it,
Fighting to move one inch,
Fighting to breath this out,
Fighting to stay conscious,
Fighting just to escape its hold...
I awake with a shock,
Like being dropped in cold water,
I can feel my heart beat,
I can feel the sheer panic,
Yet I am still here still intact,
Yet darkness still surrounds me....
~End~
