Shadows

Sometimes our eyes lock

And I see a bottomless abyss

Of darkness and despair

Mostly I walk away

But I don’t forget you exist

Those pools of darkness

Haunt my  being

I keep moving, trying to forge

A world deep inside, a world separate

A world far removed

But then, some fetters suck me in

I flail, I kick barely stay afloat

I pant, I splutter, I gasp…

The wretched phantoms

and the pools of darkness

now merely a murky shadow

then…

the ripples recede, the waters become placid

I sink into the illusory stupor once again

I breathe…

 Until…

 another stone is thrown in

Again, yet again…