The day breaks

The mind awakens,

eyes open

mouth parts slightly

to breathe in the rays of the sun.

This is the time.

Light is not in my spirit,

I have learned not to fight instinct

have understood the very depths of

my once tormented soul.

Now there is not fear that burns

no bitter taste of solitude.

I have learned to never avoid the darkness

For darkness is my soul.

Never evade the night

When your being is born to black

I am the darkness.

I am the absence of all colors, of all light.

But there is no fear.

For the night spawns.

It sires.

For you may be born to darkness as well.

Time will find your dusk

and you must not resist the night.

May 2000