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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.
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