Tag: Darkness

Faint Darkness on the Horizon

Faint Darkness on the Horizon

It didn’t matter how brilliantly 
the sun was shining on this day
The passing laughter of children
would go unheard
Encouragement of well-wishers
received with a fake smile
Grudgingly acknowledged
with a mumbled word of thanks
That faint darkness on the horizon 
holding its position
Always present to dash hopes
and leave unfulfilled dreams
Until it was gone there would be no joy
For now it had control and ruled supreme 


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Darkness

Darkness

The shadow falls across your face
and I lose you once more to the darkness 
Your time in the sunlight limited
by your own demons
robbing you of happiness
Once more allowing the chaos
to rule our world, destroying harmony
I watch with sadness as you are
consumed with anger and demand
retribution for wrongs only you perceive
I step back in horror as I witness
the madness consuming you
and I pray silently for the light


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Into the Darkness

Into the Darkness

An ever-consuming sadness
envelops your body in
a diaphanous veil
A storm brewing in your mind
Words of reason hide in the penumbra
Marinating in suppressed anger
that dwells there
Instinctively I know what is happening
I recognize the warning signs
triggering your frustrations 
What the eyes don’t see
Intuition already knows
Watching a rerun of the movie
I have seen so many times
I sense the imminent deterioration 
of what was once a beautiful mind
The beginning of the end



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Prompts

What the eyes don’t see - RDP Saturday
Penumbra - RDP Thursday
Deteriorate - FOWC
The beginning, the end - Stream of Consciousness 

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