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The void within is monstrous and aware
Of what it eats. It cannot be escaped.
You turn to face it - there is no there there;
You run, and hide - and it is right there draped
Across the hall in front of you. No one
Can flee it, it is everywhere around
Us all. It laughs when we begin to run,
And simply waits until we go to ground.
It hovers infinitely at the verge
Of our awareness, only creeping in
When it has felt our mind and body surge
Wary of what it is we will begin
And greedy of it. It cannot create
But only steal from our inventive state.