Poem X

And here we are again
My constant companion
Alone with the dark
All feelings bereft
If ever they were at all

At days tormented end
Twilight, dawn of night
You are by my side
Shadow to the left
My faithless only friend

In the thrall of nothing
Anything cannot be
The unspoken madness
Grows out its tendrils
To caress the tattered veil

Looming behind the mirror
Ravenously awaiting
To seep into the other side
To manifest the vision
Of an all penetrating gaze

The cycle nears fruition
And the question returns
Haunting all of existence
Causing mind to burn
Gnawing at perception
Ever is it gnawing

It is suppressed, for now
But it is surfacing
It cannot be stopped
It will be answered…