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Hunt
By Jena Bender
Glen Oaks Community College, Centreville, MI
The past follows, stalks, hunts
relentless, endless, exhausting pursuit.
Like a suffocating fog,
overwhelming, overpowering
thick with despair and blackened with memories
it leaves its prey
cornered, heaving, and gasping for peace
in the labyrinth of the present.
Fear, dread, panic, a pleading struggle
until finally, a submergence, a drowning in the depths of melancholy.
Relentless, endless, exhausting the pursued
the past follows, the past stalks,
the past Hunts.
Faculty Contact:
Lucy Zimmerman
This poem was submitted for the "Poetry for the Mind's Joy" project and is reproduced here with permission from the author. All rights reserved.
