The Shining

My love, I fear,

is cracked in half.

My love of fear, well,

that's intact.

This is a bloody

nightmare

worth having.

You will believe

everything. Down

on paper, even folly

seems like faith.

I've walked this

hall before -

the prince,

the master,

the maid.

Leaving behind

pieces -

fallen feathers,

glitter,

one small mask,

and my love

of fear.

They tell me

I have always

been here,

frozen

in the maze.

This is

not eternity

but some

small fleeting glimpse

of my own

sweet redemption.

My neverending

thirst -

from the earliest

craving

it was fast, and red

and warm like

cooked concrete.

She creeps

he says, again.

and again.

If you feel the heat

it's already

too late.

In this (inhuman) place

broken in pieces, I'm

a nightmare in

the making

a dirty red salvation.

Better to sleep

and let him grow

through my fingers

through my hair

so the next ones

find him there

with nothing

left of me

except the name.

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