DARKNESS DISCOVERED*

(((to be read by three separate people phased in and out, overlayed in swirling verse)))

Darkness Discovered

Untoward story untold

Till now

A catharsis of emotion poured out

My mind body and soul bared

My higher being

Captured

Stolen

Raped from Me

In a twisted story

Twisted in the one thing I cherished

Poetry

Poetry became my solice

My hiding place

I was slapped beaten abused

Betrayed

Lied to

By the very essence of love

I sought and pursued

Wanted

Lorned for

Suffering ran thru my veins

I struggled too

To sort out me from three or more thees

Multiple three others

Mistreated creatures

Of Gods creation

Cut ripped and torn

From reality to unreality and back

I walked among death despaired

In every nick and cranny of my being

Longing for me to be me

My heart soul body

Ripped from me

Torn

I could not find my handle

I could not find me

Abandoned in my frightful mental misery

I sought consollment in awfulness in him and him

and yes hims and hers.

My mind swerved one way my heart the other

In a death spiral

I discovered the darkest of darkness

Every which way I turned

I failed

Agony

Stare. Stare. Stare at it!

Then close your eyes in peace

In His all presence

I didn’t wish for this

I wasn’t born this

I want not to be this

This is not ‘me’

I reach up to a heaven

Unreachable

Yet something deep inside

Glowed tiny

“trust” whispered

I barred my soul

Naked I stood with open arms

Wanting wanting wanting more

What I knew not then how to give or get

Lost in the darkest darkness

A voice a healing hand

Knew my sorrow and

reached out for me

Drawn between two magnets

Torn defeated in anguish and despair

The blood magnet won

I was lifted whole again

And covered under the wing of warm empathetic unconditional love

The two of them gave me respite and a nest to heal in

A poet found me floundering

Guided by my saint

I made it out

I broke from darkness

Thru hope

Still whole

I stepped thru their portal

To a new life

I am free free free

Free of all that

And my story must be told

I was what the hims and hers

Wanted me to be

Now free to tell my story

To free others

To be what they choose to be.

Darkness discovered

Free

I am forever me!

tom tenbrunsel

A Carl Sandburg Writer and Publisher

Author’s Note: MARAH, This one’s for you. I so enjoyed working with you to publish your book. You impressed me from the beginning as a life-long talent. I hope you are still writing every day. The world is waiting.

*A paraphrased mirror tribute to MARAH - Darkness Discovered: An Autobiographical Narrative Poem/Book/Script/ Movie/ Broadway Play. Currently available on Amazon and soon on multiple platforms. Get the book folks. Discover an entirely new genre.