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February 17, 2013
By Literature_Darling GOLD, Warrenton, Virginia
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Darkness,
It creeps,
It crawls,
Inching its way across the floor,
Covering the sunlight with its shadows,
Unyielding in its search for brightness
Yet it consumes the very thing it longs to see
Reaching out with inky claws,
To suffocate the last bit of semblance of illumination
Retiring the room to gloomy blackness

© Mary A., Fullerton, CA

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laurengerhard SILVER said...
on Apr. 4 2013 at 12:52 pm
laurengerhard SILVER, South Windsor, Connecticut
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&quot;I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.&quot; -Sylvia Plath

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I love the line "yet it consumes the very thing it longs to see".
dagnytaggart said...
on Apr. 1 2013 at 4:59 pm
Good description, even better imagery. My one concern is that I feel this could definitely have been elaborated more, like some of your other (fantastic) works.
MissExploration BRONZE said...
on Apr. 1 2013 at 3:53 pm
MissExploration BRONZE, Vancouver, Washington
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It Can Only Fly When It Needs To.

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I love your descriptions and the use of words in this poem. You really explain darkness well.
Mckay ELITE said...
on Mar. 16 2013 at 1:40 pm
Mckay ELITE, Somewhere, Virginia
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Great personificaton of  Darkness. You describe it almost as if you were describing Lord Voldemort.