and live in shadows cast by your forgotten brilliance,
with eyes red, like dying embers
left behind by your once raging fire;
I remember a time when we chased the sun
over blacktop cooled by open hydrants--
past demons, who had yet to make our acquaintance;
their existence blinded by our dreams.
Where did you go to, my childhood companion?
I didn’t notice when you left my side.
I missed your cryptic cries for help
on the day the demons seduced you
and darkened your dreams like the night,
and caused your embers to die;
Snatching your soul, to leave in its wake
a hunger for pain and destruction;
Even as you slip into the creases of night
with red eyes and abandoned brilliance
and disappear into the distant darkness,
my memories of you live forever
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