Song at the Approach of Dawn

"Redemption" © 2016 David Prashker

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If I were to walk naked among shadows
 beneath the glinting of a night-light
  where a star shone without brightness
   in the depths of some desert cave -
    who would ever know me?

If I could converse with my own shadow
 how much I might learn from what he had to say?

If I were to stand naked before the mirror
 in a vast room of no echoes
  in a mansion of cold stone
   before a wall of night -
    who ould ever know me?

If I could converse with my own reflection
 how much I might learn from what he had to say?

But what is nakedness
 what are shadows and reflections
  who are you
          Lupus
when it is night
 when it is cold
               when it is silent?

If the bush in the wilderness is not burning
     all this remains futile

     (The more I learn about myself
      the more it all confuses me)

If the lion’s den is not bloodied
     all this remains futile

     Underneath our human facade
      in each of us there lurks
       a wild preying beast:
        a Behemoth
         a Leviathan
          an Argaman
           a Lupus

(Mistah Kurtz
     he breathing -
               this feather stirs)

We must strive to become human
     Lupus
We must overcome ourselves
     Lupus
          again and again
Man must be achieved

And if the seas do not flood back
 if the child is not redeemed
  if the ladder does not falter
   if the cross does not grow heavy
   if the wire is not barbed
Then all this remains futile

               I am dying
                         Lupus
                                   dying

     (whimper, whimper, whimper, BANG!)

This is the way it ends
                                     my friend
in blood and fire
                           in blood and fire




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