Sinking In The Valley Of Darkness

Sinking In The Valley Of Darkness

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So your sinking in the valley of darkness my darlin I know your pain 

My night also nothing these terrible evenings by candlelight suffering 

Our flowers rot of punishment blinking as we sleep restlessly without dreams 

Our rudder drifts aimlessly on river rapids flowing into violent dark seas

We murmur confess growing old with each moments passing time

Ocean waves crash endlessly flooding the hollow of our bodies flowers

Chopping tides of winter singing savage songs in hell we are lost in night

Sleepless together we are sucked in the pasts quicksand blind to the moment 

So heartsick with crying wings a lost bird abandoned scared I fall

A muzzled insect I buzz through dark valleys of dying garden flowers

Moon disturbs shivering as life's river rapids break me flowing into dark oceans

No longer led by light this blazing death path leads only to endless nothingness 

Impermanent night jewels nature's guardians converse in forgotten languages  

As traveler's of the wind we listen rocked gently on pillows of moss and ferns 

Looking up no expectations becoming birds we fly unafraid soaring in sunlit blue skies 

Innocent free as children we discover the stars once again for the first time 

Beneath mirrors warm ocean tides are bathed in healing blessing purification 

No drowning sorrow alive blown on life's windy mystic waves we flow 

Emerging from our sleep cocoon we find peace in oceans impermanent drifting tides

Night fades light dawns ancient trees renew awakening in the next moments dream 

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David Penn Arndt 2022

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Artwork by Mira Nedyalkova