My eyes adjust to the light

To look as gloomy shadows rise

Long streaked stretches

From the curtain fall.

Pinpricks on my flesh

Crawl in insect trails

And reflexes numbed by sleep

Cannot brush this fear away.

My mind aches to flee

Yet soft warmth embeds me

For I do not want to

Walk the night

With only shadows by my side.

I toss and turn

Lashes veiling my eyes

As the geometric shapes

Murmur off the grey light walls.

It would be so easy to just succumb

And touch a just out of reach hand

Feel their breath caressing me in

In their deadly cold tongues

That feed on my bruises.

I do not want to

Walk the night

With only shadows

As company.

©EMG05