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Painted in Paranoia

I’m afraid of the dark

I hold my breathe when I’m alone at night

I feel its hand on my shoulder

Chilling as it grips tighter

With its knife to my throat, it tells me to run

Run around corners and past open doorways

Anywhere where it’s lurking about

Uncertainty is flourishing

 

I see shadows painted in paranoia

Stalk me while I walk to my car

Like bad memories and college debt

All through my life

 

Nothing else has this grip on my life

No addiction, no disease,

Only the darkness and its vice

Have such a control over me

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Written by
barry-pietrantonio
30 / M / American
Published
Jun 17, 2020
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16·100
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Copyright Barry Pietrantonio

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#darkness#paranoia#fear
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