let the darkness embrace me
warm me
love me
wrap my naked soul
in death
in pain
in escape
a thousand nights
a thousand tears
a thousand deaths
welcomes me again and again and again
fetally I lie naked
beaten and bloodied
and the darkness holds me to its breast
comforts me — alone
i shudder to the cold of void
before the darkness fills me
i in it – it in me
manifest in fire burning low
and sparsely lighting the filled void
crush me now
beneath the black boot of death
…and I sleep, finally
i awaken
the black waters rise
to overtake the small craft,
i, in my indifference to the dark
i drop oar to row upstream
but the acid waters eat away the weakened wood
my crystaline craft is yet unaffected,
for now
held intact by fading will
the chasm walls rise out of site on either side
the river runs deep, deep into blackness
i gaze into it
no reflection gazes back
i am truly alone
forsaken even by myself
my skin flakes away to reveal a hardness
scaly and dry
what have I become?
and redemption shows no hesitation
as she flees into the surrounding darkness
and she has left no trace or trail
in which to follow and plead her return.
as I reach in her departure’s direction
my arms fall shattered against
the floor of the craft
still afloat the blackness
void of destination
unable to grasp hold as the waves crash down
i am thrown from the boat
i bash my head against the crystal hull
my open mouth consumes the blackness
and it consumes me…
echoes in the darkness 