Dusk Falls

I couldn’t tell you the exact amount of days,

Only that it’s been over a year.

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Uninvited, though it was,

It was only a matter of time

Until the sun

that lit my way forward

Through life’s lonely, paved streets

Once more shut its eyes

To drift into its slumber.

And the almost instantaneous fall of night

Became present once more.

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The night cycles here

Are just as unpredictable as the days.

Sometimes they only last a few hours.

Sometimes the darkness

Looms for several days.

The most recent time around,

The obscurity lasted

Well over a month.

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Any hope I’d felt

From daylight’s final traces that lingered

Was no longer visible

And far from any reach

Of my gaze or my thoughts.

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Happiness and hope

Had brightened my day for too long.

Every friend I had.

My safety nets.

My entire support system,

Once in plain view and lit abright,

Are all now completely invisible to me once again.

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A bleak reminder that,

As morning always comes,

So too does dusk.