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The Pendulum
Damilola
Damilola
8 days ago

I stagger, drunk not from alcohol but from desolation

I mourn, not from the loss of a loved one but the loss of myself

I claw through the streets of desperation

On a one-way street, laced with the howls of those that passed before me

My shadow is my only companion, a comforter in this dark path

My heart, once filled with love now wrangled, bursting on a bleeding spree

I fall to my withered knees, shaken and ready to face the wrath

The city never sleeps but I am likened to a ghost

Take me back to Eden, let me slither through

I scream and shout, but no one hears me

I weep, not for me but for the one after me

For the one before me and the one with me

This place will become my tomb

This hypnosis pulls me under, I drown in my tears

I claw through the realm of time escaping my own doom

I remember clearly the suppressed memory

I remember the horrors inflicted

Through the deep deathly hollows of darkness

I hear the sound of the pendulum

The one who made me remember

I wish I do not remember

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