Oh, how lovely you are tonight my dear. Nights like these — you know, the ones filled with your calming aroma and comforting silence, remind me why I cherish you so. For the longest time I wanted to be the cherished one but I've found that spoiling you and engulfing you satiates a part of me that I have never known. I never knew it was possible, to love someone so entirely, all parts of them. You ...

There's nowhere to hide. Every corner. Hole, crack, nook, cranny; compromised. Expansive and unavoidable. Universal to both predator and prey, the living, the dead, and those who tow the line. It is unassailable. A force that expands, contracts, chokes, and consumes. Gasping, some flee from it. Sighing, others allow it to ensnare them. Every second that passes, it becomes more and more apparent th...

It is not as though I taunted you

Nor reached out for you

It is not as though I called nor beckoned

If I have summoned you in some way,

By some dishonest deed or fumble

Such that would provoke such ghoulish figures

Or plague me with such apparitions, I repent

How can you torment me so?

With no voice, no eyes, no soul, no body

Only lack of light

Passing so casually by as if you don't know you...