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Forbidden Escape

Emergency exit

Glowing softly green in the black room

Full of madness, inexplicable pain

Nameless emotions

All without foothold

Floating freely in the dark

Creating an untamed beast

 

In this darkness glows a light

Its gentle green invitation

Promising a way out

Promising an escape

From the Creature of Darkness

Promising the desired silence

 

Like the starry night sky

Cold and quiet

Stars shining their lonely peace

Gentle, silent peace

 

Over the door hangs

Three splintering  blockades

Bent, rusted nails

Once straight and strong

Before the time of the Creature

Now weakly enforce their law

 

Scratched on each face

Shouts my barrier

MORALS

FAITH

PROMISE

Each forbidding my crossing

Each splintered cry declaring

The light which glows green

May promise one thing

But can you see through this door?

Eager jaws of hell

Or floating through the stars

Eternal sleep

Or nothing at all

My blindness stops me

From hearing the metal squeal

Of boards being ripped from the door

 

Like the starry night sky

Stars appearing within reach

But  stretching the arm

Until ligaments scream

They still taunt the fingertips

 

Like the starry night sky

I can see my escape

I can stretch my arms

Until my ligaments scream

But the  splintered blockade

Will not allow me to cross

Into the forbidden escape

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