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Staring Her Down
I.
The darkness rants,
relentlessly,
It's vapid voice, but visage.
An echo of vitriol
resounding 'till nothings left
and the vestiges of hope
disolve 'mid dying dreams.
II.
I've met her empty glare,
digested those static hued eyes
entombed behind the guise
of ev'ry empty screen
denied it's right to glow
and acknowledged
the toxin's subtle "halflife"
somewhere between
death and dispair.
III.
I see the channels
flicker past in aging numbers
'mid the nothingness
as calloused hands grasp
their patient means to an end
like thorns upon the Rose's stem.
IIIV.
And yet, I fail
to walk so peacefully
into the silence of My night.
Instead,
worn fingernails scratch and claw
at ragged shreds
of weathered sanity
in hopes I may once again
climb out
from beneath the ashes.
The darkness rants,
relentlessly,
It's vapid voice, but visage.
An echo of vitriol
resounding 'till nothings left
and the vestiges of hope
disolve 'mid dying dreams.
II.
I've met her empty glare,
digested those static hued eyes
entombed behind the guise
of ev'ry empty screen
denied it's right to glow
and acknowledged
the toxin's subtle "halflife"
somewhere between
death and dispair.
III.
I see the channels
flicker past in aging numbers
'mid the nothingness
as calloused hands grasp
their patient means to an end
like thorns upon the Rose's stem.
IIIV.
And yet, I fail
to walk so peacefully
into the silence of My night.
Instead,
worn fingernails scratch and claw
at ragged shreds
of weathered sanity
in hopes I may once again
climb out
from beneath the ashes.
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