Shadow

The light has exorcised a demon that colors the pavement, my wall, the flesh of a stranger, and even my own flesh.  He lives inside a prison that is structured according to my bones, muscles, and organs. Light is the only being who wants him to escape.

As the sun rises, the energy of the light tears through the prison and liberates the prisoner.  He is two-dimensional and exists on the surface where the population thrives.  He follows me everywhere I go, walking with the population of demons following their creators on the pavement.  The figure progresses into a darker character as the sun dies down, eventually returning to the prison he belongs in.  On some nights, he refuses to go back to the prison in favor of merging with the natural darkness.  The sun travels the planet to liberate other prisoners like himself.

He plans to haunt me.  He is an unwanted personality that no other human shall meet.  He is the dark side of my being that lives  on my wall and won’t stop staring at me.  He is the unwanted personality not even I wanted to meet.  I digress from my plan to alleviate the room from the lights that keep him alive because I know he will return in some form or another.  He is a villain that will haunt me for the rest of my life, serving his sentence until my dying day.

One day I will rest in peace because there is no light six feet deep.