Tortured Dreams

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And the darkness stead’ly marches through the distance, coming near,

bringing in its claws the madness of the despot who craves fear,

one who feeds on blood-red tears shed by cowering broken men,

broken by the bonds of heartache so entrenched they cannot fend

off the nightmares of the days long gone, playing in their mind,

seeking dogged retribution from a fiend they cannot find,

for the darkness takes their man, without question, without thought

to the one who’s left abandoned, tortured dreams their new cohort.