Predator

Tomorrow's uncertainty breaches today's horrors
As the screams embedded in the folds of yesterday
Once again resurface


To strangle us with their ravenous desires
Weigh us down with doubt, in ourselves.
Weight of a thousand luminescent moons


Discolates us from life as we know it,
Into the blackness and the deep.
Pulling us along, cringing, they scream


"Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires..."
Muted mouths forever speak.


But they are the dead
Empty air puffed into their breasts;
Rise again, as lifeless as you once were.


Let not the rotting corpse of fear
Hinder you from
That which you rightfully own.


Dismember the damned, and curse them
As they retract their lifeless arms,
Waiting patiently to once again prey on oblivion.