. Poetry from The Great In-Between: Darkness to Light

Monday, September 30, 2024

Darkness to Light

 


Darkness to Light 

(A lone voice whispers)


In these dark times 

Of bombs dropping 

Keep your faith


As

Some politicians and countries 


In hidden

Silence


Gather to

Pray for war and violence

In uneven lines


With a version of Caiphas

The dark priest


From the mythical Lost City of Dis

In The Far East


Praying the world

Tastes a Malebolge sour kiss


But what the sowers of scandal and their many followers


Of the Three-Headed Beast

Will soon know 


They risk

Living by The Great Lake of Cocytus


Within the gateway to a soulless Judecca


Floating in the dark wells of fire and ice


To be with their God

Who pays with cursed gold

In the form of all you desire


Only to entrap those into sin


To burn 


In the eternal fire

As the Great Battle

Continues 


Into eternity

As the bombings

Begin


While angels

Of Light

Led by Archangel Michael   


Slowly 

Win

In long nights


So jeep your faith


For the Darkness

And its followers on crusade


Will soon

Fade


(C)

Copyright John Duffy




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