Run ragged,
Sun splinters, eyes water
Curtains close.
Mist descends; clawing, eroding, encasing,
Safe, but empty here.
Smothered in gloaming,
Best to sleep
Not to think.
Thoughts are poison
But must be purged,
Ink spills over the page.
A warning;
A flag, a bloodstained bandage,
‘Don’t be like me’.
Suffering, yet cold,
Pain, yet emptiness.
Everything a juxtaposition,
Nothing makes sense.
Cold, trembling loneliness,
An absence –
Of everything bright.
It hurts to look at,
My eyes sting,
Limbal rings
What do they mean.
Stagnant, ossified, an empty shell,
Darkness endures
It always will.
Tenacious and soft
Sliding like oil
Into the cracks in our skin.
Feeding off our light,
Whispering sweet treacheries.
Absorbing, controlling, conditioning
Consuming.
Always hungry.
Something's taking over,
Casting shadows
Out of sight.
Darkling creatures watching,
Faceless shadows
In the night.
Because I'm a monster
I don't know what to do,
I'm a monster
When I think of me and you.
I do no good
I do no wrong,
I'm just a formless waste of space,
Cos I'm a monster.
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