I'm Not Afraid of the Dark,
#87

More Poetry
From The
Dark Side
Series #1

“SLAVES IN DARKNESS WILL YET

BE FREE”*

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              __________________________________________________* for Annie Lennox

DIMLY AWARE IN THE DARK,
THE SICK SERVANTS  OF PAIN    WERE    SENT A NEW MESSAGE
WHICH  WAS INCONCEIVABLE TO THEM /
FOR THEY HAD LIVED LONG    IN SUFFERING   AND DOOM   AND AGONY
AND WERE ONLY   USED TO PERCEIVING THINGS    THIS ONE WAY./
AND IT WOULD BE         THIS PERCEPTION OF WEAKNESS
WHICH THEY WOULD USE AGAINST   THE TERRIBLY INTRUSIVE ONSLAUGHT OF REALITY
TO ALLOW THEMSELVES  THE "LUXURY" OF BEING
WEAK, SICK AND AFRAID /
FOR THIS   WAS ALL    THEY SEEMED TO KNOW
IN THE DARK /
AND IT WAS HERE

THEY SOUGHT SAFETY AND PROTECTION

FROM THE LIGHT
WITH EVERY TRICK THEY KNEW IN THE BOOK.

THE MESSAGE  WAS  SO SIMPLE AND DIRECT
IT TOOK THE TWISTED SERVANTS           FOREVER       TO LEARN
THE MESSAGE           WAS PERFECTLY HARMLESS TO THEM
THOUGH THEY WERE CERTAIN     IT BORE THEM TREACHERY, REGARDLESS....

THE NEW MESSAGE DECLARED LIGHT
IN ALL
FOR ALL           TO BE RELEASED AS ONE
FROM    ALL THE WORKINGS OF PAIN
FOREVER/..THE NEW MESSAGE       SIMPLY DECLARED LIGHT.....

BUT THE SICK LITTLE SLAVES

WERE SO ATTACHED TO THEIR CHAINS OF MISERY
IT WAS BEYOND THEIR CAPACITY TO CONCEIVE
OF FREEDOM     

FROM THEIR DEMON LORD AND MASTER,
THE CROWN PRINCE PAIN,
AND THEY WERE CONVINCED

THE MESSAGE WAS A MISTAKE
AT FIRST…..
BUT THEY WERE BORED       AND CURIOUS    AND SO
THEY CONTINUED TO STUDY THE MESSAGE

                        RADIANT CONTENT UNCENSORED………

THE PERCEIVED PURPOSE OF THEIR SICKNESSES       REVEALED
TO THEM
WAS INDEED PAINFUL
AND TRAGIC FOR THE SERVANTS

TO TRUTHFULLY BEHOLD
UNABLE,     WITH THEIR NEWFOUND
INTENSE     SELF AWARENESS AND HONESTY
TO DISMISS LIGHTLY     WHAT WAS REVEALED TO THEM
                     AND THEY REACTED         VIOLENTLY AND HATEFULLY
AS IF THEY WERE BEING         PERSECUTED AND ATTACKED
WHEN SHOWN         THEIR OWN UNCONCEALED UGLINESS
AND VICIOUS IGNORANCE UNWRAPPED
FROM THEIR EMPTIED

AND ATTRACTIVE GIFT BOXES OF NOTHING
AND EXPOSED FOR
THE REPULSIVE SICKNESSES THAT THEY WERE….

WITH FANTASY SEEN AND EXPOSED
AS THE SOURCE OF SICKNESS.
LIAR AND THIEF TO ALL SANITY AND REASON.

THE SLAVES OF DARKNESS
AWOKE AN INSTANT
TO THE RADIANT POWER WITHIN THEMSELVES…

………A TRULY LIBERATING INTELLIGENCE……

WHICH REVEALED TO THE SERVANTS OF PAIN

AND DARKNESS
THE STARTLING, SHOCKING TRUTH
THAT THEY
WERE ACTUALLY
                                PURE MIRRORS OF CREATION
                                                                    NOT LIMITED                                                BY TIME OR SPACE.
                                   OPEN CHANNELS OF LIGHT      ORIGINALLY DESIGNED

AS VESSELS OF ETERNAL JOY.

UNABLE TO TOLERATE OR ACCEPT
                                                        THE NATURAL            SHINING    JOY
WITHIN THEMSELVES
THE SLAVES OF PAIN,      MASTERS OF DENIAL,
SIMPLY DELUDED THEMSELVES…..WITH TWISTED
RATIONALISING                     THAT THEY REALLY HATED    TO LOVE/
AND THAT THEY REALLY LOVED    TO HATE /
MISREADING THE MESSAGE ENTIRELY…..

FOR JOY IS NOT THE MESSAGE
THE MISERABLE THINK THEY WANT

AND SO THE MESSAGE KEEPS
GOING OUT….. AND MAKING  ITSELF

                                       UNMISTAKEABLY      PLAIN.

FOR        SLAVES IN DARKNESS    YOU                KNOW WELL
AND    YOU                  CAN HELP RELIEVE THEM    OF THEIR SUFFERING
AS THEY ARE UNAWARE
THAT              THEY ARE THEIR OWN JAILERS   IN A PRISON OF TIME
WHICH IS ITSELF UNREAL.../
YOU CAN ENLIGHTEN THEM

THAT    IGNORANCE AND AGONY
IS NOT    THE PURPOSE OF THEIR EXISTANCE
                                                                             FOR FREEDOM    AND BETTER
IS WITHIN THEM/
WHERE INEVITABLY ALL

SLAVES IN DARKNESS

BY THEIR OWN FORGIVING HANDS
WILL YET

BE FREED…….

Brooklyn, NYC
16, DECEMBER 1998-------------------------I'm Not Afraid of the Dark,#87, More Poetry from the Dark Side No. 1, Slaves in Darkness will yet be Free copyright 2005 F I N N E G A N