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Where are you going?

Where have you been?

What are you doing?

To whom have you spoken today?

While I was away?

What is there I do not know?

It is a prison of darkness

With no shades of gray

No light dwells therein

Inside the chambers of a jealous mind…

It is entrapment of the soul

The heart is tortured beyond control

Joy is mutilated

Beyond all recognition

And love falls prey

To the raging beast

I close my eyes

I gasp for breath

To choke back my tears

Forget my fears

Hiding in the darkness

From it’s cold, steel blade

I pray for sleep to come

Sleep to escape

This hellish cage

The burning rage

The wrath of wars unwaged

Where jealousy reigns

In the heart which knows no peace

No love nor happiness

Seems to ever replace

The jagged wounds left behind

Spilling blood while life leaves

My gaunt and ashen face

My body shivers from the cold

And I can no longer hold back my tears

In the shadows of night’s silence…

Michele L. Langlo