Tears, idle tears

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.

Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.

Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more.

Lord Tennyson

Darkness

Tell me, darkness
What do you see?
What do I hear?
Can you hear me?

Tell me, darkness
What ghostly sounds
Sleeplessly echo
Phantoms resound.
Screaming the shadow,
Screaming the call,
"Come to me,
Dance with me
Dance with us all."

Tell me, darkness
What defies thee?
What fool-hardy
Fame-seeker
Would rescue me?

Tell me, darkness
Who ever will come
Take me out of your shadow
Pull me into the sun.
Who will? I ask you,
You answer me, "None"

A dog howls onward
Though moonless the night
The winter chill cuts me
Till lifeless, you might
Tell me darkness
How do you manage to be
So very elusive,
Even I cannot see.

Blind to the earth,
You've rendered us all
Why, WHY darkness,
Come ye after nightfall.

Tell me, Darkness
How pages all seem to turn
In the night, with no light
The pages we burn
Sacrificing our knowledge,
The root of us all,
To duel you, darkness
The flames to enthrall
Our gazing eyes
For a moment at least,
From cinder,
To smolder,
To ash, after the flames had their feast.
And you conquered us, Darkness
You conquered us well.
So what say you, Darkness?
Where do you now dwell?

Tell me, Darkness
What have you to hide
Swallowed me up
Trapped me inside.

Leave me alone!
I can't take anymore!
Sleeplessness, Darkness,
What do you plague me for?

Tell me, Darkness,
What do you want?
To join with the phantoms?
Dreams living to haunt?

Why? Wherefore? I ask you this night.
I thirst and I hunger,
For having some light!

But suddenly something seems different to me.
I hear songbirds chirping,
And blindly, I see!

Tell me, Darkness,
What now do you say?
The sun is appearing,
I crack, I hear....
The Breaking of Day!!

The serpents will scatter,
The ashes were dreams,
The phantoms are silenced,
No more ghostly screams.

Boring holes in the shadows,
Boring holes in your skull,
You, Darkness, are over
I'm rescued, you're defeated, once and for all!

The day passes swiftly,
The sun loved me so,
But at around noontime,
He informed me that he was,
Going to go.

NO! I wailed!
I wept and I mourned,
I grimaced and cried,
My tears on the storm.

Melancholy I pleaded,
Stay with me a while,
A week or a month,
But he went on with his Jolly smile,
A bubblegum sunset,
Sunk down to the mark.
Dusk came with fear,
And along came the Dark.

"Hello, my captive,
Hello, I've returned!"
Darkness, you chortled,
Nightmares to me burned.

Animals gorging,
Ripping my bones
Ghost children singing
With soft undertones.
Sightless and lifeless
Dark and unknown.
Hidden and hiding.
Madness unshown.

Tell me darkness,
What do you see?
What do I hear?
Can you hear me?

Apocrypha

-1 Enoch 3.2-9

The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwellng,
And the eternal God will tread upon the earth,
even on Mount Sinai,
and appear from His camp in the strength of his might from the Heaven of heavens.
And all shall be smitten with fear,
And the Watchers shall quake,
and great fear and tremblign shall seize them unto the ends of the earth.
And the high mountains shal be shaken,
And the high hills shall be made low,
And shall melt like wax before the flame.
The earth shall be wholly rent in sunder,
And all that is upon the earth shall perish,
And there shall be a judgement upon all.
But with the righteous He will make peace,
And will protect the elect,
And mercy shall be upn them.
And they shall all belong to God,
And they shall be prospered,
And they shall all be blesed.
And He will help them all
Ang light shall appear unto them,
And He will make peace with them.

And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones.
To execute judgement upon all,
And to destroy all the ungodly:
And to convice all flesh
Of all the works and of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed,
And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.



This is the first "parable" in the apocrypha in Enoch, which I am researching. It's an interesting subject, but it be noted that Enoch is NOT considered to be a part of the Bible.