A Blind Man's Verse

“Darkness it is only darkness ‘Blind’ why were you born to live? Why don’t you be murdered? You were beaten into a sheet of invisibility Of black and only black You are the wall between the colour and the colourless Why were you born? In some angry whispers the gods stabbed the darkness With their silver blades Then the moment came when the white found the black Like a tear in the blanket. Through it crystals of light were shattered Killing the darkest and blindest of all evils It found its home in the shadows of the dawn The mirror got its reflection And the eyes its sight And saw, Saw the devils masked by the faithful darkness. Blindness – I realized that you had meaning more than the sharpest of all sights, The terrible occurrences that were at midnight, The crimson drops and the whaling murmurings With the rhythm of the slowly dieing heart. Blindness oh blindness Why did you abandon your faith? And be murdered by the inhuman light? Darkness Where are you now? Why did you dissolve in the white and forget the black? Why did you give me vision? Find me again! Rule me again! The light has to be murdered! Darkness it was only darkness Darkness it is only Still, DARKNESS.”