The Darkness has Come

I've got mere hours left of sanity

The Darkness patiently awaits

In the corners, clinging to the shadows

As my protection weakens & deflates

The Darkness curls gnarled fingers in welcome

Soon they'll be a bloody tangle in my hair

Pride in long tresses will be ripped at the roots

Pride falls, but at this point I don't care

This week has brought total devastation

An evil man used the Court to steal my son

And hours from now, I'll say goodbye

To a man who swore he'd never run

Two years since we created this Union

We call it Love, this consuming, volatile thing

We blew up our lives without thinking it thru

With what was intended to be only a fling

But we found a safe place to be together

No furniture, but we were unconcerned

The connection we had was like none before

Bonds deepening while we loved & learned

You promised to be my rock and my strength

You swore I could trust you with my heart

Did you mean it then? Or do you lie again?

Doesn't matter, you're about to depart

There is no hope of stopping this exodus

My "friends" have disappeared this year

I'm clutching a dream to return as a mother

In my dream, you are standing with me here

Why did I let myself believe you?

I should've known you'd want to be free

You needed me, I confused that with love

Soon, the Darkness will come for me

I'm scared, alone in this apartment

With the skeletal remains of our life

My bitter cries echo off shadowy walls

The Darkness wants to make me his wife

And my son, so young but almost grown

Teeters precariously on the edge of adulthood

I pray he remembers how hard I fought back

I fought for him, I did all that I could

On Tuesday, I lost my right to be his mother

On Friday, the man I love leaves

That's when the Darkness will step forward

He will remove dead hands from his sleeves

He will scrape one long, yellow talon

The smooth skin of my thigh will be sliced

I'll see the blade in hand, while on my knees

Sacrifices we offer to the AntiChrist

Twirling with the cold arms of Darkness

We are dancing as lovers, he leads

Immobilized, I am tossed as a rag doll

I watch his dead mouth quiver with need

His laugh echoes down empty hallways

The tormented sound of damned dreams

The sound shakes the walls, batters the brain

I scream and I scream and I scream

Why fight against it, why bother?

There is no one who will notice or care

I'm tired of fighting, I won't fight alone

I'm tired of looking for a family not there

My whole life the Darkness has waited

For him now, I unhinge my mind

I hand it over, my thoughts swallowed whole

I belong to the Darkness now, for all time