Lurker in the Shadows

The dark reflection has a plan, and it draws near.

You don’t see me lurking, wrapped as I am in the shadows.

I see you, though. I see you quite clearly and despair of your daily efforts to keep up the front of everything going so well, when we both know that really isn’t the truth.

I call to you so softly in those moments of quiet solitude to pull you closer to my domain, to have you share in my world as you force me to endure your own. I hear your thoughts clearly for we are one, you and I.

I am you, and I know your fears…

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Lurker in the Shadows – © 2019 Paul J. Fleming

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