OVERTAKEN (by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2013 Judge Estrella Gada)
You creep up on me like a shadow
Slouching sideways, color as dark as a starless night;
You are my worst nightmare come to life
A creature in thought
Fleshed out with every choice I made,
My own Frankenstein drooling
Maliciously over my drawn out dreams;
I made you and yet you disobey me
I command y