
i walk alone in the darkness on the sidewalks of life . street lights briefly pass me by & illuminate that darkness only to become black again . i see a figure cloaked with shadows in the distance ; i walk towards it . " who are you ? " i ask it . the figure starts to run when i begin to get too close to it . naively ; i follow . taking corners into alleyways & side streets . it seems to know what i'm going to do before i do it . wait , i just seen this sign , that building . " your going in circles ! " i say to it . i can hear it snicker . i stop . why am i chasing it ? i turn to my left . nothing . i turn to my right . nothing . i look around ; there's nobody insight . its only me ; only me in the middle of this empty street . i turn around only to see that at the end of the street , the street lights begin to flicker , parallel to each other , 2 at a time , they shut off . the next 2 turn off . then the next . the darkness is coming for me . its getting closer . i have no choice but to run . i'm running away from the darkness ; the unknown . then i see that at the end of the street where i'm running to , the lights begin to turn off over there as well . nothing but darkness to the front , back & left of me , i'm forced to turn right . the street begins to look like a tunnel with lights on all the way to the end . i'm starting to loose my stamina ; I've been running for hours . i don't know where i am . i'm lost . i push my body & mind to the limit & keep running so that the darkness doesn't catch up with me . i don't how know long I've been running , but i find myself at a dead end . I've ran all this way to escape the shadows , & here i am , at this brick wall : my final destination . im cold , tired , hungry , & weak . i sit on the ground & rest . i close my eyes , just for a minute . when i reopen them , the darkness has finally caught up with me . i stand up & frantically search for a secret passage , door , or something . the pitch blackness is coming for me . i see something . something emerging from the darkness . it's the shadowy figure . it walks past me , & stops as the wall . after all this time , i have it right where i want it . i ask it to turn around ; no response . " TURN AROUND ! " i screamed & still nothing . the figure then slowly turns around as the shadows begin to disperse . i finally get a glimpse of who I've been chasing , only for me to look dead into its eyes in disbelief . its me .
I've been chasing myself .
trying to find me .
while running from the world .
trying to find me .
while running from the world .