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You are red blood and scraped knees and blue eyes,
with rough hands and creaky bones
The sun shines around you, a halo for an angel
A trick of the light
Your shadow is tall, looming with red eyes and sharp fangs
You run from slithering snakes
and trip and fall over nothing
The dark plays tricks on your mind
Black, black, black are the sky and the ground
Towering trees block your sight
Heat pricks at your skin,
the red haze blazes all around
You run over tree roots, over grass, over ashes
Your shadow follows and picks at your heels
You are rot and decay, made of maggots crawling for flesh
You hunger and steal, greedy fingers taking sweet apples
from the garden of Eden
You are young and you are cold
and you walk, walk, walk away