Sliding on in

Sliding on in.
Casually grinning from ear to ear,
Slinking into darkness,
Wrapping itself in sin.
Smugly perching in its corner,
Dressed in thinly woven gain,
Watching me silent in my manoeuvres,
Grinning from ear to ear.
It stretches.
Velvety laws, reaching for promises and platitudes.
I feel it's claw, moving into quiet towers
(Built of shy retreats)
And see the tear that sheds a tear
Trough years of stacked bricks and cement.
It pushes a flowering scream from my soul,
And I Topple.
I topple and fall.
It slid on in.