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Abandon Danger House

The mind space time continuum

warped, twisted, smooth

streaming forth in its never-ended cycle

the current carries us all.

Relatively relaxed

speaking in terms of dusty boxes

you’ve half-forgotten in shadowy corners.

We put them there,

slid them gently along the floor

each sub-parcel wrapped haphazardly

but the surface sealed tight.

We placed the contents in accordingly

small things in big boxes, sometimes

but sometimes we can only cover it with a sheet.

We build rooms.

Houses.

Cities.

Anything to store the horrors we had

hidden among discarded toys.

Concealed, always concealed;

whether hidden in plain sight

or locked in boxes and buried

hoping that enough time under those six feet

will be enough to make these sinister beings

these beasts we birthed and bred

lose the will to continue breathing

broken, forgotten

dead.

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Written by
jake-espinoza
American
Published
Sep 5, 2012
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