An Invocation to Darkness

Hello Darkness, my ancient friend

spread your coal coat end to end

permeate every corner, nook and cranny

destroy every sparkle of light and faculty

annihilate every form and every shape

erase every boundary and every scape

Let your torch of darkness burn and churn

Black in all its varied formless turns.

Only then will

fair cream company businesses lapse

wayward degenerate critical faculties innate

to differentiate and discriminate collapse

every comparison of good-bad, failure-success fade

maiming in the name of race, colour and caste halt

claiming some land as our bounty stop

quoting dead scriptures and tradition

with moribund swollen pride cease

debilitate imposing militant morals with zeal

or imploring god’s name with conceited glee

in whose names wars have been fought

pogroms propagated, heads hacked or lives lynched.

Hence Darkness, my constant old friend

shine black bright with all your might

So we can

lose our discriminative chatter

drop all our pretensions and truly be

so we can truly stand stark naked

so every sound is a newly born’s first cry

every touch is as fresh as dew drops

every smell intoxicating every nerve and cell

every presence a seamless extension.

so we can be

alive

throbbing.

So fuck off filthy light

stop those demented deeds done

in your name to sully its

and let Darkness reign supreme.