8/8/2019 Heart of Darkness Poem
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Lux y Umbra
Feral
Dark human shapes.
Naturally despised
We behaved like lunatics.
Human limbs in movement?Perhaps it was an apparition.
The bush began to howl with half shaped resolve.
The invisible wilderness.
The blade of sheer fright.
Miserable multitude of desolation.
Hippo-meat which went rotten,
Clinging to the dim light;
the form of apathy.
Thatis we.
Regal
His ascendency was extraordinary.
The idol of burning noble words.
Dominant lustrous whites.
Display of confidence equipped with moral ideas.
A beacon of modest and clear flame;
No Capacity for folly.
Too much of a thunderingly exalted creature
To come to crawling before
Fury , terror, invasion, grief,
Darkness.
Just so.
Truth
Stripped of my cloak of timeHuman weakness.
Paths, paths everywhere;
Striving after an impenetrable darkness.
Evil seemed to beckon in a new light.
What you may call principles I had expected.
Shamefully! Shamefully!
Struggling over purpose,
Principles wont do.
Two legs,
Fool, devil,
All assaulted by the powers of the triumphant darkness.
This shadow looked satiated as you
Comprehend kinship with savages.Poor fool! You are not
supreme.
