You only love me at night

Under the constellations

And the moon’s ethereal glow

You tell me your secrets

Your dreams

None of them ever involving me

None of them ever seeing the light of day

My heart breaking as I realize

that I am no exception...

There’s someone right behind me

Their breath hot on my neck

Their arrival is so timely

Keeping my happiness in check

I could say I didn’t expect it

I could say I did not know

But this visitor inside me

Has caused the monster to grow

It’s claws reach for me in fury

Telling me I don’t belong

I dream of them so purely

It’s voice in every song

While these shadows haunt me

and I wish they’d go away...

As he journeyed through the cave, the frigid chill reaching his bones, his fingers numb from the cold, he saw a light up ahead. Excitement rose knowing that he had finally found a way out, but quickly fell once he was greeted by a far away shadow standing among the stalactites that he had grown accustomed to over his trek through the icy cave.

From the shadow came a gruff voice. A voice that he ...