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Darkness


I cannot thrive

in darkness.

It consumes me.

Time changes,

and it controls all.

Darkness.

In every corner;

it haunts my mind,

plagues my thoughts.

How can I go on?

It's in the air I breathe.

I choke on it.

Suffocate.

Like a plant

in dry soil.

I cannont thrive

in darkness.

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