Knowing

He wanted to uncover the truth,  
but he never anticipated the path he would take—  
the one that led him to his nightmare,  
the one that revealed the other self.  
He understood what he sought to know,  
That sometimes the truth is the darkness hidden within the chamber.


July 30, 1979.
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