Tunnel – A New Poem

You appear in a tunnel

Amidst the flickering light

Moving pictures tell a story

Of love, loss and fights

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The shadows are ever hungry

And will swallow you whole

Plunging the tunnel into darkness

Obscuring your heart and soul

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The platform disappears

And you plummet into absence

Grasping for purchase

To regain some substance

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The struggle is the point

A test of wills infernal

And from this tunnel you’ll emerge

Into the sunshine eternal

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