A darkness follows~
Shadow without sun.
It's been with me
Forever~
Since I was young and
Unaware|
Filling me with
Emptiness~
An unknowable pattern
(Parenthetical)
[Brackets my beginnings]
And defines my very end.
Substance.
Input.
Output.
Loss.
This life became
So easily
Injectable,
Detestable
Beneath my
Sorrowed skin.
It follows me to my sinful end
The way it tricked me
Into my insipid start.
I exhale sickened
Vapor
Copious and thick|~
I’ve become noxious and toxic~
It clings to those around me~
Trying to penetrate,
Permeate.
Perpetuate itself
Onto another so weakened
Entity~
Like a virus,
Trying to live in a shadow
Devoid of the sun

K. Carlson/Daxyl
©2010



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