In the night I hear a cry
it is my soul searching for ecstasy
searching for deliverence from the hell it walks with light footsteps.
The darkness does not subside in the candlelight
it is only enriched, made fuller and more terrifying than I could possibly imagine
Imagining does not come close to the reality of blood and death
that wafts past my nose with each trodden foot fall.
My hand grows tired from carrying the burden of too many lost realities.
My mind furrows deep within itself, tripping on the core.
Fragments yearning for the becoming they feel they so much deserve
It will not end, only roll on into the ever after
His mouth trys to speak
His pen trys to move
But both are still by the finality of the word and phrase
They are intimidated. Intimidated by themselves more the anything
The mind outthinks them both, always leaving them a step behind
Lost in a purpose already a millenium of mindfullness old
So they sit and wait
Waiting for Truth
Some high ideal and order to which every particle of being reaches to attain
The eruption of blood
The boiling away of life's vein
Somewhere, in the deep and dark places man dare not tread lies It.
The Dread, its true name lost to the history of ages that were never written
The Dread is there, always waiting to remind you of the horror you have become
Feel it, suck it, taste it deep.
There is nothing clearer in this life or the next
Bits of life spat out on the crude atoms
The specks that make us who we are
That program us into the framework
A tapestry or web work spinning sinuously through it all
Words too little to convey the power
The mighty destitudeness of so vague yet true of a notion

Come with me
Take my hand and step
No one is going to hurt you
At least not here
I won't stand for it
In my microcosm of love and spirit
reach out in front of you
Watch how it moves between your fingers
So careful, so sure of itself and its intent
Does it make you tingle?
Touch you deep down there like nothing else?
Does it reach inside and pull you free?
You can stay here you know?
With me
In my garden of selfless imaginings
It can't touch you here
And the Dread hates that
The Dread hates me
for this special place
Yes, he tries to hurt it sometimes
But he can't
And I laugh and laugh
because I know he can't
Come my beauty
step naked onto my altar
The altar to the deepness
That bit of psyche you think is back there
And I know is
The Dread cannot touch you here
What else need I say
I am the keeper
The defender of your deepest thought and desires
Let your salvation be to touch me
Feel me move near, touching you back
It is that simple
Nothing more to it dear
I know you wish to give in
as much as I wish to give it to you
There is nothing else

And so we walked for a time
In both the shadow and the light
I felt it
Clear and true as the morning sunlight
I felt the hair stand up on the back of my neck
Knowing it was not to last
That forever was not to be
Only the infinite moment
And that was enough


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