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  >> Static Item >> Poetry >> Personal >> ID #1137562  |   Show DetailsPrinter Friendly Page Tell A Friend
Slithering Through the Years
A concrete poem about the passing of time and lost youth.
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Slithering Through the Years



Throughout my life—
    silent as a thought—
          a phantom has stalked me.
                I've never seen it
        but I've felt it
b r e a t h i n g 
                  D
                  O
                  W
                  N
                    my neck—
                              S
                                L
                                    I
                                      T
                                        H 
                                      E
                                  R
                                      I
                                        N
                                            G 
                                                into my head—
                                maliciously infecting
                      random thoughts—
          shattering the innocence
    of my youth
with its deviant 
                  S
                    L
                      A
                        N
                          T 
                            on life.
                                    D
                                    E
                                    E
                                    P
                                    into my heart
                                it has seeped,
                          smothering
                    my dreams.
This serpentine phantom
continues to
            W
              E
            A
              V
            E 
              my existence into a
                              perpetual nightmare—
                                              as it feeds upon
                                                          each lost moment
                                                                        of my life.
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