Darkness In Men's Hearts

Limit not the darkness to
This terror called night.
Cave's, lair's vicious. And for men's hearts
More vile. A gravepit's.

For what of Death, and its stench
Has for each intent
Seeped out, a plague on the earth
Does he represent.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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