Darkness gave me religion. God, if there ever was one. Dreamt up in a void. Some reason not to fear. Not to fear the silence. The blanket of it washing. And the violence that it brings stops me cold. Should I not fear a God that idles while the world suffers? While big brother strokes the senses. My senses. The incense is blinding from reality. What world. No, what hell is this? As I stare at the, at the reality ******* tv. At the dreams of vanity. I dream a passive apathy. What prayer shall I pray to the first world deity? Bring me.. bring me. Love me because I can’t love myself. I don’t know myself. ******* pixelated. The filter by which I see all things, breathe all things, believe all things, hope all things, burn all things, endure all things, fall short of all things. As I stare. The ceiling becomes an unsettled sea. I see her first before she notices me. The demon, the angel, the ghost. Whatever. The chill down my spine as her arm extends from above. Those eyes open. The fear in my soul, as it sinks. What prayer shall I pray? When silence descends upon me. I touch the glass holding the hours as she stares back. The corpse gazing from above. From below. From inside. What has religion brought me? But a crutch and a gag in this first world reality. Then she is gone. As quickly as I knew her, I have forgotten her. Underneath the hideous surface lay beauty. That I may never know. How can one know when there is no silence. When the waves of static wash over. Diluting creativity. Activity. Progressive thought. She was a nightmare. So I thought.