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All The Times Before

There is this thing

that comes

in the night.

It grabs a hold

of me

holds tight

won't let me go...

It's cold

hateful

It hates me.

It tells me why.

It tells me how.

I am so afraid.

How can I not be?

When there is nothing but this

thing

in the darkness

in the night

I'm alone

all alone

and cold,

shaking,

cold from the inside out

from the thing that has a hold of me

What is it?

What is it called?

What is it's name?

It doesn't tell me..

It fills me with fear,

terror,

It holds me captive,

I cannot escape.

 

I am always alone when it comes.

Always helpless against it.

It comes when I least expect it.

When I have almost forgotten,

pushed the memories away

I though I was protected.

I thought it was gone.

Forever.

But,

I was,

wrong.

So,

So,

WRONG.

 

And then it came.

Alone this time,

after so long, it had lost the power to bring others

It brought the fear,

it brought the ice

the loneliness.

I lay,

curled alone on the bed,

helpless.

Unable to speak,

unable to move,

barely able to breath.

 

'Why? Why now? Please, please not here. Not now.'

I pleaded, knowing my cries fell on sadistic ears,

that reveled in my pain.

It didn't matter.

I didn't matter.

Nothing mattered.

Just like

All

the times

Before.

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