“ABYSS”

My illustration for my poem Abyss

“ABYSS”

by jinjin

Ambling through the flat terrain

Of a long narrow meander

Seeking for fabled stones of Hansel and Gretel

That lit up as the crescent moon shone its luminous brightness…

Alas! Down that long winding path,

As darkness engulfed the vastness of nature,

Came the terrifying shrill of a monstrous creature

Sent me shivers and made me catch my dying breath…

Fear began to sweep all over my frail body

I couldn’t move a foot, I couldn’t see a thing…

Making me wonder, “Where did all the glitters of the night go?”

“Why was I so alone in this forsaken gloomy denseness?”

Suddenly, a light shimmered at the far end

Igniting the littlest hope that was left of me

I tried with all my might to scurry away

But my knees began to quiver, and the ground where I was stuck, also began to quiver…

As everything shook around me

The littlest I had also died so instantly

Vanished so swiftly I couldn’t even grasp the tiniest of it

And that instant it was killed, was the instant the light shone so brightly towards me…

It was so near yet so far

But seemed like an apparition as time passed by

Still, wished I could be radiated with even just the tip of its glow

But how could it possibly be?

When underneath, the mouth of the treacherous earth awaited to devour me

And how could it be when I just couldn’t evade falling into the abyss

Where the gnawing pain

Would always be a forever menace.

by: jinjin



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