Poems by Themis

Within the Darkness

Everywhere in the depths of things

A sacred river runs,

A welling music ever sings

Of strange and buried suns...

Farther and deeper down Time's dance

The ancient waters flow,

Cold stony law-towers swoon in trance,

Dead orders whirl in woe;

Life's lavas burst, fierce fire-flakes fly,

The fettered Dragon, free,

In one leap swallows up the sky

And sinks back in the sea.

The age-old world-stairs rock and crash,

Far-flung in baleful blight;

The rising dragon-waters smash

Mind's pillared halls of light.

Primeval darkness holds all things,

Numb lie all memories;

But deep within, the Spirit sings

The myriad suns' release.

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