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Propaganda

The dark isn't all so bad

 

It will free you

 

In lightness there lies

 

Wretched daggers of light

 

Stabbing your eyes

 

If only light itself were porous

 

Soaked with the blood of our kin,

 

It would be

 

And dripping with desire  

 

Which glints like diamond's fire

 

But touch it and it will burn

 

Burn you like the embers wrought

 

Across Poe's own chamber floor

 

And pushed into a darkness

 

Light

 

A darkness unlike the darkness here

 

The sheltering, nurturing cool swirls

 

Of navy beauty

 

Rest assured here,

 

that nothing can harm you

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lauren-nicole
American
Published
Nov 5, 2011
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