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Fear of the dark

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He walked into the room, void, unknown
A stench followed him, leftovers of fear
Slightly exposing his true darkness
Death is his form of seduction
Calmly wait here for his rapture
So I come to linger

By the wall he finds I linger
To him, I am virgin, still unknown
He walks forth, all others in rapture
Watch, not daring to meet his eye, in fear
He prepares his cold seduction
As I retreat into the shadow’s darkness

He laughs as I entered his world, the darkness
I fidget, wishing not to linger
Not to be trapped in his seduction
Wishing not to discover the unknown
Can not go back for now, I fear
He has begun his rapture

All consuming is his burning rapture
As I forever slip down into darkness
He parts his lips to taste my fear
He moves his hand to linger
Within his eyes is the unknown
My soul departs in sweet seduction

Adding to his own seduction
I find, with me, he is in rapture
He feels something yet unknown
A light within his darkness
Forever, he makes the body linger
From something more than fear

A gasp feeling suffocated with fear
Dreams have their own seduction
But now, in sweat, it seems to linger
The taste, the smell, the touch of rapture
In my bed, in seamless darkness
I find myself, my soul, my unknown

I linger forever in my unknown
Between dire rapture and sick seductions
Seeking to end my fear of him, the darkness
This is for a competition on what fear of the dark can mean. Since I've been studying the Romantic period in music, I think it has influenced this. Especially the Story of the Erlking.

Written in a sestina form.
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In the interests of a critique - the only thing I really see is the comma after 'calmly' in the first stanza... I don't see how it fits into the flow, and it kind of distracted me, because I didn't see a grammatical need for it, either.

But - amazing piece!!!!!