Shadow of Despair

There suspended in the air
With its unanswered question
Waits the shadow of despair
Immune to all suggestion
Night might pass light might return

If you have not yet felt this
Welcome to your turn to learn
To receive your virgin kiss
Of that chill which gnaws the soul
Snaking softly night and day
Of that dark which swallows whole
Lives which have been sucked away
By the shadow of despair
Which with patience questions for
All you have and then some more

There suspended in the air
Immune to all suggestion
Waiting for us me and you
With its unanswered question
Where the nightmares all come true

As it waits so too can we
Hold my hand and stay with me

+Steven Curtis Lance



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DEAR STEVEN
ON TE BRIGHT SCREEN OF DELIGHT

COLUMNS OF DESPAIR ACT ON A SAD PLIGHT

GOOD GOING INDEED!
SUPANI

g`day dear cousin, excellent, this verse stabs the very soul,

where the nightmares all come true.. i love the mood you build and the accepted oneness and desperation of the final couplet.

a final outcome when one is one with the living dead, life suck away by the tragic, relentless, nothingness of it all. it not only spoke to me,it sobbed softly......despairingly.

on a journey to the isle of the dead. thank you for this and all you do, as always greg.