Darkness – A Poem

It whispers in like something gray

Somehow alive in the absence of the light

It runs across your skin

Reminding you

That you are at its mercy

No longer safe

It can surround you like an embrace

And if you aren’t careful

It can find its way inside

To pollute, to distort, to whither

Inside of your heart

It will sneak inside, slither in

Like mist and smoke, curling down

And inside to your heart

Gently at first, until it begins

To squeeze

Tighter and tighter until it penetrates

Penetrates everything until nothing remains

But the deep cold of darkness.