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MICHELMAS
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since 2012-02-15
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Lancashire England

0 posted 2014-11-06 09:40 AM



Endless Night

Are dreams black like a moonless night
No shadows in the gloom an incandescent pool
No ripples there to stir your thoughts
Despairing in the darker depths for light
And in that dark you yearn to touch
To feel some semblance of a life now gone
Cold, warm breath emitting but still unseen
This dark dream that wanders through your mind
But yet awake or so it seems
The yellows of the day turn grey within the night
Terrors of the dark, unheard your silent screams
Your hand reaching out no comfort do you find
Colours flooding in, but eyes you keep shut tight
Dawn has come too soon,just silence in your room.

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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
1 posted 2014-11-06 12:21 PM


Ahhh, the dark abound within us always it seems. When we try to understand it, it just seems to mock us, or at least that how I have found it. I have managed, thank goodness, to turn my dark a lighter color . . . gray, but still midnight dark. Dark still comes to play, but not as often anymore, and it doesn't stay long either.

If they give you ruled paper write sideways.

EmmaRose
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since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376
Midwest
2 posted 2014-11-07 02:24 PM


haunting reminder of those wee hours of the dead night that tugs at our psyche
Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
3 posted 2014-11-08 06:04 AM


That was pretty awful and uncomfortable. The more I read the more I didn't want to go where you were taking me. But of course it was too late I was already hooked and in until the dreaded end.  I'd say you did an excellent job of recreating that primal  darkness we fear when we are alone.

Lori

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