Before Darkness

Before darkness, there is hope

As humans cling to the dying of the light

Grasping, as if we may yet

Deny it the chance to fade.

Looking back, never forward,

To the prospect of despair.

We do not brace,

But deny, deny, deny

Our American-Dream worldview

Has not prepared us for this.

 

But before the darkness comes, look it in the face

But be careful, else

It shall fill you up completely

And it will be all you see or taste or know or feel.

Before darkness comes, look it in the face,

Through the face to the heart,

And see the angels hidden inside it.

Angels of comfort, of peace,

Ready to hold you in your darkest hour,

Waiting on orders to send them when needed most:

Humanity’s secret defence

Against the ever-looming darkness.

Secret from us, not from the bringers of the dark.

We cannot know them if we

Deny, deny, deny,

Despair, despair, despair.

 

Before darkness,

Abandon all hope in yourself, humanity,

That hope which keeps you grasping the dying light,

Denying it the chance to fade,

Looking back, never forward,

To the prospect of despair.

Instead, look forward,

See the prospect of despair,

And alongside it the truth of angels,

That there is a hope greater than you ever knew,

The divine intervention,

The dawn at the end of the dark night.