And who will chase away the nightmares?

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Darkness settles into my
Bones when I sleep
And you start chasing shadows
They always get away
Dark hands reach and claw at my body
And you slap them away
But they keep groping
I am a corpse still alive for some reason
The nightmares make me not want to sleep
Every night I die and arise a vampire
Half alive
One day that light will be stamped out
For now I flicker as low as a dancing candle
Light
I am dying
I die with the fall, curling up with each leaf
Whatever is left of my spirit
The coldness will steal the life from my bones
And the shuddering never ends
You've become a shadow too and I can't tell the difference

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