Thursday, September 28, 2023

i have met the enemy . . .

"For the enemy has pursued me, 
crushing my life to the ground,
making me sit in darkness like those long dead." Psalm 143:3

the fatigue which is
that shadow which refuses
to disappear in the sun,
the fear which giggles
in the closet's shadows
as i hang up my clothes,
the pain which is like
a constrictor slowly trying
to squeeze all my energy out,
the loneliness which seems
to have adopted me as
its long-lost-now-found friend.

it is those little enemies 
which wear me down each day,
not that Enemy i was always
warned about, but seems not
to pay much attention to me.

(c) 2023 Thom M. Shuman

Venmo: @Thom-Shuman

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