The Darkness of Your Heart

by f-cynyr ©

( a pro-log to the river acheron)


The darkness of your heart
has eclipsed your life,
it has twisted your dreams.
All the old yearning of
your once pale life
has been swept away,
burnt to ash by your
new love of pain,
by your newfound passion
for the sweet sweet pain

You tried to stem the
the creeping darkness,
holding it shackled, locked
away in the dungeon of your
heart; you tried to deny
your dark passion, you tried
to renounce your secret love.

You try to turn from the darkness
to travel back to the light,
but the darkness of your heart
haunts your dreams,
the darkness dominates your will.
It has turned your soul to pain,
so you weep and wail.

Confused about the root of
your desire, trembling
about the direction of
your lust. You weep for your
lost life and fear where
the darkness is dragging you.

The sweet perfume of the forbidden
fills you with lust, and your twisted
dreams of tortured bodies
carries you out of your quiet life
to the dirty secret that you cherish

The darkness of your heart has taken
you, you have been led astray
you have been consumed, swallowed
by the night, you have lost any
hope of day.

You now are possessed, only
whips and chains can bring you
joy, only cuffs and bondage can
lift you from your despair.

The quiet of your life has been
tortured, you will never be the same,
the darkness of your heart
has taken your life,
your darkened dreams have
stolen your joy.

The darkness has dimmed your
vision, turned your world
from day to night.
The darkness has upset your
pleasures, has turned your joy
to pain, and your pain to joy

The darkness has broken you,
you have to abandon that
pale shattered life,
leave the ones you once loved
because now you are doomed to
wander in the night land,
doomed to inhabit the dark.

You grieve the passing of your
once placid life,
now you turn to the thorns,
now you embrace the aches and
pains that promise to quench your thirst.

You have shed your skin,
abandoned the pale life you
once lived.
Now you search for your
Promised Land.
Now you want to eat the grapes
of pain, and become drunk on the nectar
of torment.

The darkness of your heart
has led you astray,
you have abandoned your past
and ventured into the unknown.
You have traversed the flames
and entered the forbidden land.

Now you wander the nightland
in the uncharted darkness,
traveling the path of pain,
suffering for your desire.
You have embraced the
darkness of your heart.

You have had a taste of thorns
and savored the ache,
now you have the hunger
that will take a lifetime
to satiate.
You have fallen into
the darkness of your heart,
you have been consumed,
your old life burnt away
your old skin shed

Now you wander the nightland,
you wander the desolate
shores of the river Acheron,
searching to fulfill your desire
of the darkness of your heart.