It called itself darkness

It called itself darkness

Lingering cold and cleverly vicious

It stood there by a horizon that felt too near

And the world was shrinking

Now it’s only that and me

Now it’s only that

It called itself darkness and I knew what would come

It had been there before

Then gone but never really left

I stroke the streets with my thoughts and paced myself

“It all comes down to this” i wondered

me and it

me walking

it following

it called itself darkness and I no longer had a name

we had met before

I slowly lost my sense of being

Whatever comes after this will leave me long gone

“slowly” I thought

then only me and it

then me

and only darkness