Darkness draws in upon me.
Cloaks me in it's depth.
I feel so light, yet I cannot move.
I can feel it coming closer.
Sense it, smell it in my soul.
It is near me, over me, surrounding
me.
Covers me breathing down my neck.
Such sickening sweetness.
Heart racing, blood pumping as
it holds me in it's embrace.
Trying to throw it off, to run,
I cannot.
Waiting, hating yet loving
every moment.
Why does it seek me, why must it
come to me.
I am nobody, nothing, leave me
be, let me go.
Drifting in my mind to somewhere,
anywhere.
Opening my eyes, the light is blinding,
I cannot see.
Closing my eyes once again.
Back to the depths of the darkness
where I belong.
Stuck in this embrace.
I am free.
-Lauren Elizabeth Miller
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