She Was

She was the woman I was once,
hiding behind several masks.
Afraid to let people in,
fearing they might not like
what their eyes could see.

She was the other side of me,
the darkness that clings to my light.
Can't stand to be abandoned,
yet kept on receding back to the shadows.

She was the voice inside my head,
whispering incessantly in my every waking day.
The halls of my imagination she claims for her own,
where she creates monsters even from dust motes.

She was me in every sense of the word,
and now we are one for I've mastered my fear.
She and I are whole once more,
ready to face tomorrow stronger than before.

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Staring out to the sea
with the wind caressing her hair,
she watches the sun settling
back to its warm cozy bed.
The coming of the night
stirred no dread in her heart,
even when houses start to bar
their windows and their doors.
Creeping from the cracks from the pavements,
and crevices from tattered walls,
the shadows come riding the
screeching sound of the furious wind,
that picks up fallen leaves, sticks and stones,
hurling them at silent houses making noise.
Shadows that hunt for spaces in between
and souls from within,
hungry for life that was taken from them
unexpectedly.
And by the rocky shores of the sea,
as the shadows gallop and caper all night,
she stands still with a sinister smile
playing on her lips.

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Disco ball

Swirling lights that coruscate,
colors blooming on shadowed walls.
Giving life to darkened chambers
when all the lights are turned off.
Turning round and round
like hundreds of stars that glisten,
rainbow dots on a rounded ball
slowly dancing the night away.



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As the World Sleeps

She is awake and waiting,
for a delicious treat to satiate her
hungry thoughts and empty stomach.

She waits by the shadows,
free flowing hair melting with the night,
only cat's eyes seen peering at the dark.

Waiting with stillness
and never ending silence,
preys pass by without noticing.

A finger's breadth from her,
they don't know why they are scared,
until they look up and see,
death staring down at them.




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