Shadows
Innate shadows passed me by under
A dark unlit starless sky
Gaping mouths and hollow eyes
No response to my cries
Adrift above and everywhere
Lost souls of whom I shall not fear
Unmanned corpses lacking bone
Shapeshifting follow me home
I close my eyes they disappear
Oppressive presence overbear
And why I ask do they seek me
I alone please let me be
Or is it that I am the one
Who longs for darkness to be undone
I carry no light or no knife
I tarry along within the night
A lost and lonely host
Too many a ghoul and a ghost
Heralded by the death of others
From dusk till dawn sending shudders
To fearsome souls wandering around
In the darkness like circus clowns
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