- Non-Erotic Poetry
- darkness
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Click hereFootsteps in inky darkness-
they are my own and others.
Cold sweat beading on my skin.
All running blind and naked.
Each movement a struggle
against paralyzing fear,
like running in thick water.
Panting, heaving for fresh air,
fighting brambles and branches
that rake across our bare skin,
swarms of gnats invade our eyes,
we breathe bugs into our teeth.
The clammy soil sucks our feet.
Dim light on the horizon.
Body shapes come into view-
they are my own and others.
Wild eyes turn towards the east-
is it dawn or some strange beast?
- COMMENTS
greenmountaineeralmost 7 years agoThe last two lines pack a powerful punch.
I'm wondering if "quagmire" instead of "paralyzing" might have been better, given "like running in thick water" that really triggers the imagination.
I also like the generalizations in lines 2 and 16. So many have felt this way and hope at the end of it all, there is no beast.
