Darkness

Darkness stalked through the shadowed lands only briefly glimpsed before vanishing. It passed through valleys and ridges leaving in its wake despair and torment and Blood soaked lands. No friend of light, it kept to the dark paths releasing disharmony and malcontent in its wake. No respecter of life's beauty, its intent most malice feeding on people's fears and greed, it gained in strength. A veritable feast lay before it as it advanced and used man's foibles to its personal gain. Causing strife and friction was its delight setting one against another chuckling with glee. Yet, where there is darkness there is also light and it is daily pushed back into the shadowed lands from whence it came. Once again it is conquered by both light and the spring of eternal hope.