Apocalypse rough draft

Apocalypse.

In dark and cold was born my soul,

In broken glass and dirt and mold,

In shadow of an older world that, buried now

Puts forth its folds of darkness,

Crisply shown against the brightness of a fading star;

The fire in my heart that long untold

Has dimmed, the fire in my eyes that swims

In choking blackness, once so bright but bright no more.

It darkens, not a thing of summer days and gaiety,

A black fire, higher, higher to the dawning of a sunless spring,

And to the end of time it reaches,

Ever clawing at my fragile frame,

It teaches those who call themselves my friends to fear it

And pushes those who would go near it farther, farther still away,

This angry venom that would see to end my days

And this darkness that would take me,

So that only Charon, ferryman of Hades

Shall hence speak my name to me

For if the cosmos deign to deem the spark of life

Or love that beats within this breast a thing unseemly

Or uncouth, my soul shall shudder,

And the firmament shall quake

And order darkness unto me,

The world shall shake beneath my feet

And fire rain and come to me,

And I shall burn, my skin shall come undone from me

And red and blistered shall I be,

So scorched by heat of sun and fiery sea,

For happiness is such a fickle thing,

A thing of children so it often seems to me,

And in this world I fear it shall not come to me

Till Ragnarok descends and Fenrir finally is free,

Loki’s loose and Surt is woken,

The seven seals are read and broken,

Tartarus is hence unleashed upon the world,

Bak’tuns turn in endless cycles,

Giants and the gods are fighting,

Zeus unleashes fiery lightning,

Hell is opened up and demons stream

From sea to shining sea,

Atlas falls and drops the world,

Odin dies and Fenrir snarls,

Thor and Jormungandr spar

And darkness covers over me.

Yes, sooner shall the world be marred

By fire, ice, or Fenrir’s jaw

Than shall the seeds of happiness

Bring fruit of joy within my heart.

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