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home Byline, Fiction Interring Word

Interring Word

By Tadhg George O’Mahony   Posted in Byline Fiction
Posted on November 16, 2016November 14, 2016

The darkness pools around me;

A viscous, shadowed cloak that absorbs all but my loneliness.

I am certain to drown unless she wrench me

from myself.

 

She, who slashed the blackness

with great welts of light.

With her merest of touches she could silence the demons

that twisted my every thought.

In the hollowness of night,

when all is more real than it should be,

she was the warmth that mellowed my qualms.

Now, I clutch for something to hold

as fear pulls me deeper underground,

brandishing my body with lead weights.

 

 

How pitifully poetic one becomes

when left with just themselves.

It’s as if the heart puts everything into its dying cries.

The music of a martyred soul.

 

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