Challenge
///// Nightdwellers 'Beginning Line' Challenge (Jun 1st) /////
Your mission, should you choose to accept, is to submit a piece of literature inspired by all that is nocturnal, gothic and darkly (it can be anything from poetry to a short story) that begins… ‘SHADOWS SLUMBER AS THE SUN GOES DOWN’… Tag it #nightdwellers #beginningline. I look forward to reading all your posts…
Nightmare Town
Shadows slumber
As the sun goes down
I shamble quiet streets
In my nightmare town
A familiar haunt
Of my childhood dreams
Quiet pastel houses
Clock my trek
In the gloaming
Ever West
In search of sun
And home and rest
I call out,
But no one's there
Save empty homes
That sit and stare
I think I am
The last alive
Such life a lie that was contrived
To lure me to this neighborhood
Foreboding future failures
My "coulda, woulda, shoulds"
I stumble on in search of truth
My wanderings but bear no fruit
And though
Despair may scheme
My spirit take
I walk in hope
For when I wake
I'll cast this darkness
Far from me
To stride tall
In the sun...one free
-DeRicki
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