Darkness Poem by Helen Wilby

I am the whisper from the corner
Of the darkening room
I am the shadow that flickers
Against the deepening gloom

I am the dust motes hanging there
Suspended in the dark
I am gone yet still I linger
I am fading like a spark

I am lost like the grains of sand
Swept downstream in the flood
I am drowned and long forgotten
I am weeping tears of blood

I am the disappeared
Only footsteps left behind
I am howling out through silence,
Heard only in my mind

I am gone and long forgotten
The pain cuts like a knife
I seem to me a stranger
Looking down upon my life

© Helen Wilby
15 Nov 2018