the enigma of arrival by Michael Helsem

in the days before the dark we thought about everything else in this morbid waltz lit with thunder-bark we bought our conscience off in the days before the dark saying: good work should be good enough and when someone new felt the lightning fork in the days before the dark we would shun the fire all our answers lurk where the map runs out teach us to fadge dark-sight in the days before the dark

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