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Towards the Dark

Count the scars

inflicted ably

as though out of plight

Slavishly

searching aimlessly

for ways to contrite

Faceless

Are the ghosts that haunt me

Leaving their unsightly

determining mark

Nameless

Is the path before me

Treading all but lightly

towards the dark

Nowhere near

but I won't back down nor turn around

I'm still here

On trembling legs traversing barren ground

A flickering flame

far off in the distance

is burning anew

Dreading the shame

of lacking persistance

to accomplish what's way overdue

Baseless

are the fears that crowd me

It is forthrightly

manifestly stark

Timeless

is the voice that calls me

A beacon shining brightly

leading me towards the dark

Nowhere near

but I won't back down nor turn around

I'm still here

on trembling legs traversing barren ground

Stepped in entirely oblivious

somewhere commonly calamitous

A mistress so insidious

turned into the rock of Sisyphus

Nowhere near

but I have come too far to turn around

I'm still here

on trembling legs traversing barren ground

It's so clear

there is no doubt as to where I am bound

My deaf ear

hears something calling me without a sound

Towards the dark

Towards the dark that I must push on through