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The Darkness Swiftly Rides
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The Darkness Swiftly Rides |
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Matchstick McGee Junior Member
since 2000-05-15
Posts 26Austin, Texas |
I should probably post this in the Spirituality board, but I'm a teen, so there. Push Breath quickens Squirm Heart pounds Scream A cry The Darkness swiftly rides! To surround the infant, Blind it! Keep from it the sight of Good, Bind it! And as it grows to early age, Tie it inexorably to the Dark! The chaotic miasma of the foggy Dark The slimy tendrils of the creeping Dark The frosty needles of the freezing Dark The iron hands of the despairing Dark They bar it from the Truth. As it grows into maturity They eat away at this human To harden its heart to hate To tear and tatter its soul To make it falter and stumble And yet as it grows old and weak It presses on through its pitiful existence Though blinded by Dark Though frozen, suffering, Desperate, confused All its life it searches Through the fog and the cold It gropes for Good For a Light that it cannot see And follows the best that it can Spasm Breathing shallows Sigh Heart rests Fall Silence The Darkness quickly rides! For it does not end in Death! They surround the dead one, Shrieking! To carry it off to eternal torment, Screaming! The spirit shakes and quivers in fear At the army of devils before it But something changes in the air The daemons leave off their howling They hold still, hardly daring to breathe The spirit feels itself lifted gently up The Dark's ties to it are brushed away The pain, the suffering, the blindness are gone It sees the Dark for what it really is It sees life for what it really is It sees Truth for what it really is The free soul turns to look at its rescuer And sees God The Darkness swiftly rides The Light is always there Feedback is welcome. -Matchstick |
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LoveBug
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Member Elite
since 2000-01-08
Posts 4697 |
Matchstick, this is a wonderful, well-written poem. It's a beautiful decription of the darkness there is without truth and God's light. I loved this! I especally like how you represent birth and death. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar Wilde |
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Lucius Cade Member
since 2000-03-23
Posts 235Saskatchewan |
Ah yes, although I may disagree with your thoughts on after life, I enjoyed this poem very much. Lucidity is the answer to all problems |
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