Monday, April 4, 2016

Darker Valentine

What the Manicheans knew
was that the shadow of the tree
is the tree’s death always
standing alongside defending
the tree from other deaths
not its own it’s what’s left
after the light is trapped and held
by a body or a tree
and how the darkness is a door
the only safe door back
into the light which for them
always meant the great sun god
who like a child bent down
to rescue his dark brother
a cinder among the stars

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