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Egress

I can’t recall this never existing Pallid cold corridors so colorless I have traversed over and over In endless searching… Stepping over putridity Awash in isolations laughter Walking beside my companioned wall Instinctively impelled forward… Wresting aspiration from bony digits Using fast my sheltered strength Against corpses mounting waves Encroaching upon bricked doorways… Within this sallow incessant labyrinth Sinking within this quickening of blood My sight grows narrower with each pulse With heavy footfalls my eyes endeavor… A shifting miasma of reverie and vision Mirrored upon stainless sterile steel doors In a moment of clarity I behold my senses Iced revelry of unyielding standing strength… No opening… Vanishing… Itinerant…

Copyright © | Year Posted 2007




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