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Sleep sneaks up on her like shadow's tendrils curling across the walls Stretch and shrink as she recoils back into her shell Defenses stripped clean Huddled against a corner with mere blankets For protection barely suffice Ghosts looming over Wraiths of her former self Superimposed against ebony horizons Tainted a sickly shade of sulfur A warning sign Of worse unlived nightmares to come Cracked blinds and tattered curtains stripped of joy Windows translucent with fear Eyes peer out glinting icicles glass fragments refracting Slivers of the last gleams of light Bloodstones shattered ruby Silhouettes of what she once had Now swallowed by the knife of memory leaving Decayed flesh gravid with Unwanted tissue And hauntings of nightmares past Clouds of darkness enshroud Creatures entombed in flesh Craving freedom And warm milk
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Jan 31, 2015
Jan 31, 2015 at 10:35 PM UTC
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Sleep sneaks up on her like shadow's tendrils curling across the walls Stretch and shrink as she recoils back into her shell Defenses stripped clean Huddled against a corner with mere blankets For protection barely suffice Ghosts looming over Wraiths of her former self Superimposed against ebony horizons Tainted a sickly shade of sulfur A warning sign Of worse unlived nightmares to come Cracked blinds and tattered curtains stripped of joy Windows translucent with fear Eyes peer out glinting icicles glass fragments refracting Slivers of the last gleams of light Bloodstones shattered ruby Silhouettes of what she once had Now swallowed by the knife of memory leaving Decayed flesh gravid with Unwanted tissue And hauntings of nightmares past Clouds of darkness enshroud Creatures entombed in flesh Craving freedom And warm milk
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Jan 31, 2015
Jan 31, 2015 at 10:35 PM UTC
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