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L. J. Slaferek

L. J. Slaferek

Embrace of Darkness

What is the blackness other than nothing?
 
Could it be something tangible?
 
Something you can embrace?
 
What if it is the one embracing?
 
Every night, as you lie
 
And cower under the covers
 
From the only thing left to embrace you
 
What if you keep cowering away from it?
 
What if it stops trying to embrace you?
 
Maybe it’ll just give up
 
But maybe you’re the one giving up
 
Maybe I’m the one giving up!
 
It’s hard to tell
 
Whether it wants to hold you close
 
Or smother your last choked breaths
 
Maybe it is both
 
Maybe it has only ever been both
 
That’s not so bad after all
 
If only
 
For something to hold me close
 
I think you could be happy
 
Maybe
I could be.

Written at 3:26 am, 12/25/2014.

© L.J. Slaferek

#Agony #Alone #Cold #Dark #Darkness #Death #Deception #Depression #Doom #Fade #Fear #Forgotten #Hidden #Hide #Insanity #Invisible #Isolated #Lie #Lies #LonelyLost #Madness #Mask #Memory #Night #Nightmare #Numb #Pain #Sad #Sadness #Shadow #Suicide #Terror

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