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This is possilby the darkesr poeem I'vve me;e ever written. Pease fogive me;I shocked myeself.

Dark Days Are Coming

Dark Days Are Coming

Dark days are coming
Loping over the far horizon
Distant still, a little,
They approach, all the same.

The familiar disappears
Note by note
The past piles up behind
Pushing our mutual lives ahead
Towards Who Can Say;

The windows close;
The doors are shut,
We cannot say what remains

We cannot see
The distant shore:
We cannot grasp the shape
Of the ruin approaching
But we know
Its consummation will be complete,
So we grieve
As grieve we must
As the completion of our memories
Devolves to dust,
As the shadows of our minds
Establish trust 
In what is now and what will be
In what we think and what we see

No - This is not Illusion.
No - Nor neither is it confusion.
This is how it all plays out,
This the end of desperate doubt:

The Dark days come,
There is no escape.
Will you not accept
Their gentle rape?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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Masonis Avatar
July 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Gotta offer an apology on this one; easily the darkest thing I've ever written. Gotta stop thinking about the impending mortality of all of my friends and myself.
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