Nameless

Someone died last night

An intimate stranger

An internalized other

A mysterious monster

The voice of many in one

Always in the shadows

Of my life

With a nameless face

I never knew him

Though he was my

Silent dictator

A disturber of my

Private thoughts and feelings

A disrupter of my inner peace

He died slowly, painfully

He hung on stubbornly

Clinging

To a meaningless existence

As if to a cliff

He called out and cried

Then he simply expired

And now his corpse

Lying invisible at my feet

Like a disconcerted shadow

Is finally laid to rest

In the closet

Of my heart