As we step into the end of time
embrace this slow apocalypse
craft
stories reasons films and books
that sound like yarns
of dark extinction
embellished in fine
golden guilt.
Tell tales about an Eden
somewhere
Fountains of God’s everlasting
heaven
Paradise with virgins ready
always beyond, always
beyond
these valleys of our dying.
It seems
we need to raise the dragon
before a hero can emerge
present our children with this
gift of shadow
wrapped in light.
But do sleep tight:
this dream too
carries the promise
of its waking.
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