The Antithesis of Death

I’ve seen the death you cradle in your eyes
and I know that nothing can soothe its god-awful cries
 
A phantasm longed for, yet repulsed just the same
it’s the darkness that brings only loneliness and shame
 
This hunger for blood, this hunger for pain
why, it’s the demon that drives you out into the pouring rain
 
Yet there is a place where even death goes to die
 
a place where a man can face all that he’d deny
 
A darkness as natural as the roots beneath your feet
 
it's a darkness filled with the sweetest of heat
 
And here, in its womb, you’ll find a natural fit
the antithesis of death, this primordial
 
​split
 
 
Exe
 
 
05/24/2018

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