There’s someone right behind me
Their breath hot on my neck
Their arrival is so timely
Keeping my happiness in check
I could say I didn’t expect it
I could say I did not know
But this visitor inside me
Has caused the monster to grow
It’s claws reach for me in fury
Telling me I don’t belong
I dream of them so purely
It’s voice in every song
While these shadows haunt me
and I wish they’d go away...
As he journeyed through the cave, the frigid chill reaching his bones, his fingers numb from the cold, he saw a light up ahead. Excitement rose knowing that he had finally found a way out, but quickly fell once he was greeted by a far away shadow standing among the stalactites that he had grown accustomed to over his trek through the icy cave.
From the shadow came a gruff voice. A voice that he ...