Echo

Poem

© 2022, Tanweer Dar

It's difficult

To make out

The voice

I can hear

In the echo

Reverberating

In the darkness

It grows louder

Coming closer

Slithering

Creeping

A serpent

Of sound

Sinister

Undecipherable

Until it is too late

And I can finally

Decode

The terrifying truth

As it stands before me

Inevitable

The walls themselves

Speak its words

A chilling promise

Of nothing

Except despair