It Lurks

I’m not afraid of the dark. I fear what lingers inside of it, what uses the night to cloak itself from our eyes. Usually you get over this fear when you are a child, but I never did. I saw what was behind that veil that we call darkness, it lurks in the shadows and waits. It wants to maim, and harm, but not kill. Killing you would be too merciful. It wants you to suffer the consequences of it’s actions. It will never take responsibility for what it did, it will hide behind you. Use you as a shield, and blame you for what its done. It will destroy you without hesitation, fast or slow is its decision. It loves the pain that you’re in, it feeds off of negative emotion. It thrives off of pain. It loves to see you fail. You cant escape, it will tether itself to you. Where you go, it goes. What you see, it sees. It knows you, it knows your family, it knows everyone and everything you do.

It is a part of you. A parasite that entered a wound of yours long ago, an infection that never heals. A sickness that cannot be cured by any healer or doctor anywhere. Its always there, looming over you. Looking over your shoulder at everything that you do. Injecting fear, anger, and misery into your veins. Ripping your heart out of your chest, only to put it back again, but more broken than it was before. It sucks away your will to live, and to fight for what you believe in. It takes you away from yourself. The crippling fear preventing you from fighting back. It will be the end of you. You can try to stop it, but it will never let you win.

Original Work by P.H.