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Soul Song
by Alex Grehy

These tunnels are my home now
The darkness is my new best friend.
My guitar’s soul is pacified
If we stay underground, alone.

I’m all alone, alone, so alone
I’m all alone, alone, so alone
I’m all alone, alone, so alone
Alone, alone, alone

Shadows sleep here, in the darkness,
My guitar dreams, watchful silence,
Light wakes shadows, soul devourers,
Footsteps echo, like a drumbeat,
Run to refuge, run to darkness.

It started when I was young,
I bought this guitar from a friend,
Who’d died in pain, suicide,
I did not know his soul survived.

His soul plays on, plays on, plays on
His soul plays on, plays on, plays on
His soul plays on, plays on, plays on
plays on, plays on, plays on 

Shadows sleep here, in the darkness,
My guitar dreams, watchful silence,
Light wakes shadows, soul devourers
Footsteps echo, like a drumbeat,
Run to refuge, run to darkness.

Woken by light, his ghost appears,
Don’t touch his shadow, it brings death.
Your life force is within his grasp,
His soul song calls, try to resist.

He wants you, run, run, run away
He needs you, run, run, run away
He craves you, run, run, run away
Run, run, run, run away.

Shadows sleep here, in the darkness,
My guitar dreams, watchful silence,
Light wakes shadows, soul devourers
Footsteps echo, like a drumbeat,
Run to refuge, run to darkness.
Run to refuge
Run to darkness
Run…

Fiction © Copyright Alex Grehy
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from author Alex Grehy:

After a lifetime of writing technical non-fiction, Alex Grey is fulfilling her dream of writing poems and stories that engage the reader’s emotions. Her work has been featured by a wide range of publications including Siren’s Call, Raconteur, Bookends Review, and Toasted Cheese. One of her comic poems is also available via a worldwide network of public fiction dispensers managed by French publisher, Short Edition. Her ingredients for contentment are narrow boating, greyhounds, singing and chocolate. It is a sweet life, yet Alex’ original view of the world has led to her best friend to say ‘For someone so lovely, you’re very twisted!

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