Darkness Made It All Easier


Darkness made it all easier.

The nagging guilt and shame

That pierced his heart

Made the king stoop to the knees.

Not all his guilt; but a fate-

Inevitable, unavoidable, tragic!

‘Who is to be blamed?’

He shuddered with terror.

Acceptance is difficult, but

Darkness made it all easier.


Exile is now essential,

A quench for conscience.

All kingship, a waste.

All power, mere vanity.

‘My love, my sincerity,

Everything questions.’

She! Eurydice- his wife?

He can’t count, can’t think.

Her death - it seems

Darkness made it all easier!


How could he mourn, as a man or as a son?

Yet he wept, wept to the Dark;

Dried his lips and thoughts.

Daughters looked stunned

With newly born faces.

He cannot be sure!

He can’t face, can’t think.

His own darlings - indeed

Darkness made it all easier.

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