They ran me down.
I don't know why, and they didn't care
I was something strange, different
running through those streets, I knew fear

I hadn't had any intention of causing harm
but the people didn't know, thought eluding them
the chase was on
And finally I was cornered.

as I stood at the end of that dark,damp, alley
time stretched outward, expanding
warped by my perception of the seething tide

I lived in this moment
restraining the strength of the shadowy form within.
watching with all my senses the expressions
the bodies combined into one being the sea of emotion was showing me

their thoughts, blank, reacting
only on the lowest of all animal instincts
threatened by what they do not know,
not understanding the silence

I felt my shadow form,
my dark self, that which I hold controlled,

tried to keep known to me,
Writhe inside me

It fed off this tide of power
the energy released by pure, unfettered instinct
and the nightshade form inside of me drank it all in
put it to it's own use.
I felt it open the gate to the abyss,
and pure dark power flooded through me.

I held my hands before me, palms facing each other,
And my dark self took control

I stood with my back to a wall.
the dark energy, I pushed out through my skin,
creating an impenetrable, liquid black wall around me
And I felt it reshape me into another form.

the moon above me, in this frozen instant of time
winked, and went out.
And the energy poured forth from my freshly sharpened claws.

it formed a ball, which grew bigger
As I poured more life into it
It expanded, and took control of time

And their minds froze.

And I moved

They didn't see it.
I didn't see it.Now, I could only feel.

I felt myself spring froward into the frozen mash of flesh.
I tore them to shreds, my shadows
trailing my every motion

My wings grew, and every fluid black feather
became a blade, stretching from one side of the alley to the other
as i split that instant of time

I went through them like a fine sword
slashing through a half inch wall of nothing
as I burst out of the end of the alley
I grew stronger, sensing for the first time
the true size of the ocean that had come to engulf me
and I stretched onward, unleashed,no longer able to hold back
or be held back

So I kept going

I found somewhere, where my darkness no longer fed,
and became calm after it's loosing.
And I began to remember.

And now I mourn for my enemies