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…
Dark Inhabitant
Shadows slumber as
The sun goes down
And I envy the peace
Surrounding me
But my demons awaken
Resurrecting in darkness
Rising to attention and
In a dialect of mania
Shout to me backwards
In written words and
Transcribed inscriptions
Interpreting meaning
Rushing from my
Brain tissue unfolding from
The safety of sanity lost
Swaddling me in its depth
And my theories bleed
Rectifying pain through
Digestion and regurgitation
Expressed and memorialized
In subliminal poetry spoken
By the voices in my head
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