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Passion’s Promise

- Passion’s Promise -

Part One: Dark Sentiment

If you would learn one thing from me it is thus:
Sometimes light can be terrible and most harsh.
But in the darkness, you can find truth to trust…
And therein lies the light of a welcoming force.
Cloak yourself in the shadows, and be soothed!
You are safe therein, where no deceit is found…
Let your heart be at ease and my words proved,
In the peace where all will and passion abound!
The dark is your shelter, your realm of refuge…
And I am its’ master, its’ mistress, it, embodied.
Seek the dark and you seek me, not in servitude,
But because you are so ready to at last be freed!
What is the nature of will, to our eternal souls?
Will contains the power, to work one’s desires,
To do good, or evil, as one guides, or controls…
As one’s will blazes hotter than all Hell’s fires!
Will is a sword to some, yet it is also a flower…
It is as graceful as a spire, or mighty as a tower.
Let that tower be your fastness, our monument!
It has already been raised, by a dark sentiment.

Part Two: Passion’s Creed

None who live are without passion’s promise…
Save those who through stagnation are deluded.
It is a nobler thing, to strive after love and bliss,
Than to become, by a stagnant spirit, so eroded!

When dark conflict is upon the face of creation,
The dream of peace becomes a lie of false hope!
Only passion can lift up the heart in celebration,
Leading to a truer peace, beyond dreams’ scope.
When passion leads to peace, we gain strength…
Undreamed of by those who have become weak,
Diminished by conflict, beyond a suitable length.
The strength of the passionate is a power to seek!

When the power of passion is freed, it burns fair,
Searing with the light of a glory unknown before.
It shines in our eyes, in our skin, and in our hair…
The glow of victorious spirit, sublime evermore!
When passion is granted the victory, it is sweet…
For those once blind and chained know freedom.
Their chains are broken, the risen dawn to greet,
Eyes opened by a glory never glimpsed by some.

The restrictions binding us, we make ourselves…
And only we can look beyond that web of deceit.
With a passionate spirit that so seeks and delves,
The web is dissolved, and we become complete!

Part Three: Truths of Desire

These are the secret truths of desire, of the heart.
We conceal them within ourselves, at our peril…
For whilst they wait to be awakened, by pure art,
We are slaves to illusion, our true natures stilled.
Give in to the darkness, not for evil but for good!
Wisdom teaches the difference, you might learn:
There is light within it, which is misunderstood…
Within that velvet embrace for which you yearn!
Oh seeker, I name you my kindred if you know…
The meaning of all I speak herein, and the glory.
When the light is cruel, it fills us with such woe!
Yet the dark is waiting, to divest you of worry…
Like the patient lover, with arms open accepting.
She is our mother, and we are ever, her children!
The universe itself, with all its’ beauties shining,
Is far less eternal than she, whence all life stems.
To understand love, is to know passion’s form…
Yet to fathom it entire, you must face the storm!
Dare I speak for the darkness; am I that worthy?
Her passion makes me so; I embrace it willingly.

Not all can know the beauty,
           Of the stars that glisten…
Not all who are blind may see,
           Nor can the deaf listen…
Unless they choose to be free!
Written by Kou_Indigo (Kara L. Pythiana-Ashton)
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