The Lingering Darkness

THE LINGERING DARKNESS - BY KRISTY-LEIGH AVERY

I hear them;
I feel them;
I sense their coming;
I smell them;
yet I do not see them.

As the light lies hidden behind the mask;
The horror lights up even more;
The dark one approaches the lingering shadows;
The light is stuck between life and death;
The demons that I feel become alive;
Fasting as I approach;
I reach the formidable house;
Lights out, windows bolted;
Yet I sense them coming.

The spirits shall rise;
As the light is bestowed;
Amongst the shadows;
ƒσя тнє gℓιммєя σƒ ℓιgнт;
ιš ƒαšт ιη тнє ℓσσмš σƒ тнє ƒσяšαкєη;
αη∂ тнє ¢яσωš нαυηт тнє šку;
тнє šтαяš ¢σνєяє∂;
тнє мσση ƒυℓℓ;
As it chimes;
I am locked.

Their grasp a menace;
Their evil knowing no bounds;
I step unto the platform and they rise;
The rise in hordes as minions;
The overlord now gone;
Bestowing them the dark;
As they come I fail;
The darkness holds me in still;
They rise, rise, rise like a thousand tortured souls;
Redemption, revenge, remorse;
Now they fall;
So do I;
Dragged into their realm;
Smitten with death.

For a while;
I am alone;
Peace in the dark;
But it pulls me back alive;
I am again at its beck and call;
The souls returned to the grave;
The calls now silenced to their minds;
The dead returned and howls encapsulated;
For a second I sense their coming;
But then I realise;
I am one of the dark.....

THE ORIGINAL VERSION I WROTE

ι ¢αη нєαя тнєм
*ι ¢αηησт šєє тнєм
*тнє ∂αяк ιš ¢σмιηg
*тнє šριяιтš šнαℓℓ яιšє
*αη∂ тнє ℓιgнт ιš вєšтσωє∂
*ιηтσ тнє šнα∂σωš
*ƒσя тнє gℓιммєя σƒ ℓιgнт
*ιš ƒαšт ιη тнє ℓσσмš σƒ тнє ƒσяšαкєη
*αη∂ тнє ¢яσωš нαυηт тнє šку
*тнє šтαяš ¢σνєяє∂
*тнє мσση ƒυℓℓ
*αš ιт ¢нιмєš ι αм ℓσ¢кє∂
*ι ƒαιℓ ιη тнє мιšт σƒ ∂єαтн
*αη∂ тнє ℓιgнт ι šєєк
*нαš gσηє....
*тнє єη∂

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