Monday, May 31, 2021

Midnight Dread

I feel an impending sense of doom.

Thin bottled pills won’t cull the gloom?

I wonder why I sprout this fright,

Blooming as the clock signals for night.


Beneath my skin I tremble, weak,

Yet my eyes won't seem to weep.

I know when I feel the call of dark

it's time to wait for the morning lark. 


Why does the clock strike at my heart,

the hands at ten and two tear me apart.

The hands at eleven and twelve pull me closer

to the edge of despair which I won't muster.


I feel an impending sense of doom

when it's time to quiet beneath the moon.

I rip at my face with determination

for blood and scabs whisper me absolution.

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