Lord Soth (47 page)

Then we shall make you remember,
shall make you live again
through the long denial of body.

For you were first dark in the light’s hollow,
expanding like a stain, a cancer

For you were the shark in the slowed water
beginning to move

For you were the notched head of a snake,
sensing forever warmth and form

For you were inexplicable death in the crib,
the long house in betrayal.

And you were more terrible than this
in a loud alley of visions,
for you passed through unharmed, unchanging,

As the women screamed, unraveling silence,
halving the door of the world,
bringing forth monsters

As a child opened in parabolas of fire
There at the borders
of two lands burning

As the world split, wanting to swallow you back
willing to give up everything
to lose you in darkness.

You passed through these unharmed, unchanging, but now you see them strung on our words of your own conceiving as you pass from night to awareness of night to know that hatred is the calm of philosophers, that its price is forever, that it draws you through meteors, through winter’s transfixion through the blasted rose through the shark’s water through the black compression of oceans through rock—through magma to yourself—to an abscess of nothing that you will recognize as nothing, that you will know is coming again and again under the same rules.

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