Dark Days Are Coming
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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
Loping over the far horizon
Distant still, a little,
Yet they approach, all the same.
The familiar disappears
Note by note
As 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 that is approaching
But we know
Its consummation will be complete,
So we will 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 © William Masonis | Year Posted 2025
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