Dark Lantern

Today's muse: Verse Escape: Friday 55

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Dark Lantern

She groped in the darkness, afraid she would never find her way.

Terrified she would.

She was so tired. If she could just find...

There! A light. He had lit one, after all.

She was mere steps away when it vanished.

And the pitch black swelled with his mocking laughter.