Your time hasn't come yet
Walking down Life Street like you're some sullen king
No cutting corners…
you think you're trapped in darkness
In reality there's nothing to worry about
Just the horrors of your thoughts
But what you believe
Has yet to come
Just around the corner
A dark mist; human eyes cannot see through
As a once cloudless sky turns blood red
resentful black streaks cut across the sky
Like motionless lightning bolts
Cracking open the once blue above
And your face grows stricken with pallor
As musk dampness fills the air with uncomfortable warmth.
Yet your skin shivers.
For you never would have guessed
What might hit you…
So caught up in the moment
Clenching onto yourself
Your thoughts
Your emotions
Whatever you feel.
You never noticed one foot in the black mist.
Gradually condensing itself
Into a hideous grasp.
Pulling you
closer...
You feel your feet sinking deeper and deeper
Slowly
Into an onyx black grime
a terrifying ooze
Cold and hard
Yet pliable enough to pull you into itself.
Something of evil…
Of dissent
Disease
Dismay
And your eyes fade, turning to black
Tears roll down your cheeks; incomprehensibly lucid.
There's no use struggling
You believe
You were destined for this
You tell yourself.
Giving in, there was no reason in the beginning
You sink
Faster and faster
Yet time moves by
Centuries like minutes.
Minutes like seconds.
Seconds rush by like forever.
But a wave of paradigm
Shifts through your once, past, present clouded mind
And visions of a ladder
Settle into the foggy mist
Without further notice,
You're headed halfway up,
Looking down, you abandon the dark mist
As it glares at you,
Carving deep into the back of your skull.
But you avert from it, and look up into the white light;
Crisp, cool, refreshing.
A cloudiness absconds,
Replaced by light and pure freedom
And such majesty
Such grace.
Chains of despair that have weighed you down before
Lose their weight, release their grip.
You climb onto the last rung of the ladder,
Feet placed, defying gravity and the laws of nature
A bright light flushes your face
As you float about clouds of white
Into the pale blue sky,
And float into eternity.