Beguiling Remnant
written by: Rando Mithlo
@Rodhnoe
I’m one who would fill in a vignette
When taken in by a curious form
Hollowed by night’s late desolate dark
Witness to luster seductively bright
Lure has breached a gate of restraint
Willed to far traces to what intent
No hand had reached nor face had flashed
Yet mark the way to retrace this path
Not for day those light particles scatter
The darkest of structures fill this dead-end
Why from ruins must shimmer enthrall
With nothing of defense, I’m welcomed in
Some beauty peeks from threadbare drapes
I cast jagged shade on its oaken door
I’ll enter despite an icing within
Black pierced not by the cool flood of moon
I wear this room’s echo and dusty coat
Forced to feel walls vibrant in regret
Sensing a gaze on me so intent
I expect contact most desperate
My blood enhanced a presence to thrive
As if spliced inside I let it thieve
Its return is sap thick dread filling
An ending felled like a tree unheard
So this is how I come to see you
This beguiling remnant resides
To siphon a will and lead it nowhere
Of what feeds fear, evokes desire
Coming closer to cold withering
The roof dissolves to a starlit sky
Another pursuit pushed alarming
From anodyne rest, forever pried
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