Touch the Darkness


Black like the slimy, grotty swamps
Infesting the nether reaches of the mind -
Filmy grime on the inside of a cup.

Dark as the evil of a cold night
Infiltrating the loose boards of a small home -
An icy wind against wet skin.

Firey hot as the magma from a volcano,
Scorching, blackening, burning -
A shower too hot.

As cold,
As bleak,
As grimy, rotten
And dark -
As Death.