Darkness Be My Friend

Running in the dark

In the park

My eyes are blind

My stomach leaps

Every shadow brushes me with death

Should I have listened to them?

My logic cautions

Don’t

Be dumb!

Or numb

To unspoke danger

So I run

I let the darkness wrap me round, embrace

Til I become

The one on the inside

Looking out

My heart beats fast, fierce

I am wild

Untamed

Tiny, a mere heart abeat, at one with the inkiness

En garde, world! - now I

am coming for you.

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Note: The title of this poem is a nod to the dystopian young adult novel Darkness, Be My Friend by John Marsden.