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Lil OnE Member
since 1999-12-14
Posts 234Pasco County. Fl. |
Sitting here in the quiet, I watch the candle flicker back and forth as the shadows dance playfully on the walls. They seem to be having fun, moving wildly about on the wall. The shadows are nice, playful things, bouncing around, as if playing tag. But suddenly, I am not comfortable. I don't feel peaceful anymore. My mood shifts. My thoughts become angry and hateful. As all this happens, my perspective on this image before me changes. It is no longer that of a happy and joyful setting. It is somber. Vendictive. Angry. Resentful, hateful, and almost insane. The wicks become shorter, and the flame moves faster, the light casts now evil shadows onto the wall. The same wall where just minutes ago, the shadows were dancing about, bouncing playfull. But everything is different now. The shadows are full of rage and hatred. They have no mercy or compassion. Before my eyes, my mind sees a horror movie, being played out on my bath tubs walls. I am afraid. I see the tortured sould being held within the dark shadows, fighting fiercefully, trying to break free.. trying to escape from the undying pain. Though they fight with everything they have inside, they get nowhere. And might I add, they get there fast. It is a very intense scene. I'm sucked into the dramam which is still unfolding itself before my very eyes. I try to speak, but I cannot make a noise. I am paralyzed, as if in a trance. I lose myself in this thing, and am enveloped in it. I cannot move. I feel as if I am one of the trapped souls, trying to escape and struggling to break free. Then I stop. I stop mentally fighting this dark force which is trying to win me. I realize that I am beat. I sink down, giving up all hope. I am weak and I can't move. I'm in pain. I feel like I'm on fire. My stomach turns at the thought of the smell fo burning flesh. I can't breathe. I gasp for air, and I begin to weep quietly, mourning my very existance. I shift my focus again to the flickering shadows, and my skin crawls. I picture all fo the people I have known who've died. I see their rotting flesh, and their exposed bones. I drift into another 'daydream'/nightmare where I'm surrounded by the dead. The smell of decay fills my senses, and again, I feel unbelievably sick. Repulsive thoughts scatter throughout my mind. A half rotted corpse sees me looking at it, and it chases me. I turn to run, but I can't. There is some sort of a dark wall there. I turn the other way, only to find that there's a wall there, too. I look up and the corpse is getting closer and closer. I realize that I am trapped. I seem to be encased in something. It's something dark, but I can see through it. The dead body beats on the walls which surround me. Chunks of decayed flesh fly from it's fists and arms. I realize that I am in a coffin, and that I too, am decaying, though I am still alive. I see that I have nowhere to run. Facing the fact that I am about to die, I hear a noise outise the bathroom door that drags me back into reality, and I jump, trying to hold back a terrified scream. My efforts proved to be in vain. I cry, and it hurts. The pain is so deep and so intense, that it comes from the pit of my stomach, and is felt in every millimeter of my shattered heart. I sit and cry, once again mourning my life. Looking up, I see the shadows and the flames, begging to drag me back into anguish. Back to the deepest abyss, where evil lurks, and there is no hope. I feel a chill flow throughout my entire body, and with a final shudder, I blow the candles out. I wrote this one night after taking a bath. I had candles lit everywhere, and I just allowed myself to imagine all of these things. I know they seem odd, but hey... why not?? lol. Thanks for letting me share.  "I've fallen asleep, slept so sound. Fallen so fast, I missed the ground" ~Lil OnE~ |
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LM Senior Member
since 2000-08-03
Posts 585 |
Gee... girlfriend! It's spookey!!!!  |
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Lil OnE Member
since 1999-12-14
Posts 234Pasco County. Fl. |
LM, thanks as always. I'll take the silence of everybody else as them saying, "Wow. I'm speechless".  I run, I fall. I walk, I sometimes crawl. I give, I take. I bend and yet somehow I break ~Lil OnE~ |
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Lil OnE Member
since 1999-12-14
Posts 234Pasco County. Fl. |
AND A HUSH...... Fell over the crowd. Did it really suck THAT much??? I run, I fall. I walk, I sometimes crawl. I give, I take. I bend and yet somehow I break ~Lil OnE~ |
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Deranger Member
since 2000-05-10
Posts 498Somewhere, between here and there |
I have four words for ya, Dark. Creepy. Surreal. Yummy. Beautifully dark and dreary. Have you any other treats for us? --- Spreading insanity, one post at a time “Writing about darkness comes easily for me. I just close my eyes and write what I |
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Lil OnE Member
since 1999-12-14
Posts 234Pasco County. Fl. |
Deranger... thank you. No, I don't have any more I'm willing to share. Not in a forum, anyway. I'm not sure they would appreciate it. Only two people seem to have taken the time to read it anyway, so what the hell. I'll shut up now! Thanks again!! I run, I fall. I walk, I sometimes crawl. I give, I take. I bend and yet somehow I break ~Lil OnE~ |
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