Prophecy III of 3

Of What the Dark Keeps

The last of the three. The others, if there were others, were not forgotten. They were destroyed.

1. 1

   The dark keeps what the light cannot hold: the unfinished, the unspoken, the wrongly loved.

2. 2

   It keeps them without judgement, which the light has never learned.

3. 3

   Do not go into the dark to conquer it. Go as a guest, or do not go.

4. 4

   There is a hunger below the world. It is not evil. It is the shape the world makes when it is not being watched.

5. 5

   Watch it, then. That is all that was ever asked.

6. 6

   What you fear to lose, you have already begun to lose. Naming it is the last of the losing.

7. 7

   Foresight is not seeing what comes. It is seeing what is already here and refusing to call it new.

8. 8

   Every one of these was written to stop here, at you. And the dark closes over the page like water, and keeps it, and this too is mercy.