_____________________________________darkness - by adire___

I am darkness.

Standing upon the threshold of the horizon, I wait.

I will become Death, eventually. Inside your mind. Twist your soul around me and I shall shape you.

Keeper of your ways, Reaper of your days, I am everything that you had ever hoped to be.

Nothing.

Emptiness is your fulfillment. Love your desolation, your destitution.

In isolation, I wait for you. To end your loneliness, in a font of gold-kissed crimson warmth. To love you with that final breath.

Taste me, thick and dark and smoke-smooth. Coursing through your lungs, blanketing them. I am your heartbeat.

Touch me, sweet and biting and creamy-cool. Warmth found deep within your belly, spreading, spreading. Sweeping wind of longing. I am your desire.

You cannot find your light. You cannot bear not to love. An empty shell of a world. No longer. Devoured, as you will be, as you yearn to be--for in the end, there is only darkness.

I am darkness.

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