i can't escape you

i go

into the empty room,

and you

are there.

i climb

the stairs,

i pull the ladder down

from that attic,

i go

into poorly lit

room

below the roof,

and you are there too.

i try

the cellar,

but i see you in the

damp

corner

beside the stacks,

the boxes

of old news.

i have to leave the house

to escape you,

but then, 

there in the sunlight,

beside me,

i see your shadow.