I've been dying to do something creepy. Finally, here is my (rather weak) attempt; hope you enjoy it.
My 125th fanfic. A poem about Darkrai, or rather, about the nightmares it induces.
shadow
He was no more than a fleeting shadow at the corner of your dreams
A flicker of dark fire that licked its edges with malicious hunger
No more than an imaginary notion that you pushed aside
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He could have been that umbra beneath the tree at noon
He could have been that brush of ice you suddenly felt on you neck
Mysterious inklings of a coming catastrophe or
Subconscious streams
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A deadly, stealthy coldness creeping into your world
As he watched your footsteps towards your door that evening
Followed you silently up the stairs across the parquet
Never made a whisper, not a sound, just cast a deep shadow
A bottomless shadow
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Took you softly to sleep, a gentle sweet drugged sleep
And crept into your dreams.
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Screams, endless shrieking
Slashes of blood on the pale concrete walls of your room
A song that was low and haunting, a melody centuries old
That sang sweet messages of death into your ears
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And you cried out in desperate supplicance to a nonexistent salvation
For you were trapped in a world so real, yet not real at all
Realities impressed upon your mind by your own terror and confusion
Trapping you, like cold iron chains
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You awakened to the moonlight
Sweat gleaming on your forehead, breath coming in short pants
Shivering, wavering between flame and ice
The light was bright and full of blessing
And brought you enough comfort and calm.
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Until you turned and saw
Shadows cast everywhere, dark like dreams
Black streaks like blood in moonlight, sprawled everywhere
Like sinister, spidery fingers, groping about for your trembling soul.
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It is an endless flight from your dreams.
He is everywhere in your world,
Like a tainted bloodstream running through your life
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Close your eyes.
You will never escape.
You will never escape.
Man. Epic fail.