There's
a Darkness that exists in all humans. Not in the way that dark follows
day, not necessarily the extensive black and white belief of good versus
evil. It's something a bit more in the gray areas, somewhere in the
expansive between that could stretch forever between argued morals and
values. It's the thing that makes the same ones who rage verbally
against the injustices of the world curl up with a book about dark
possession and sensual sacrifice. The thing that calls out to the
curiosity of the unknown, and not simply the stigma attached to them.
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves, strong powerful men, impossibly brave
women, Superheros – the greatest dream of our twisted natures. No hero
is simply born to what he becomes, circumstance and life and tragedy
always fixes him. Vampire's are people that defy death while spreading
little slices of it. The Paranormal, our imaginations belief that we are
genuinely immortal as the passing days and nights, twisting and calling
us into it's darker Depths.
Though
the Darkness is not entirely evil, either. The term 'Darkness', always
brings into mind the impossibly tongue-in-cheek term for something
twisted, unwanted, uncouth. It's that parallel, that taffy term that
draws in the right frame of mind to form and follow the suggested line
of thought. Along and following these thoughts to subjects like Love-
most would say the coin follows to Obsession along it's backward facing
sister. The truth though rarely do humans particularly understand that
their strongest ideal's of 'Love' border on possessive obsession. The
greatest love songs, the sweetest of tragic love stories that capture
their imagination and make them crave for that elusive emotional
attachment. Think of it now, go and follow your thought to the kind of
things you crave, and be honest. The deepest, darkest desires that swirl
around in the back of your brain, threatening to come close to the
light of understanding and illusion.
What
if those were offered to you, brought to you with a single stipulation
of a glistening gem and platinum collar? No other strings beyond the
attachment of the object like some long lost necklace around your very
neck? Some love the idea, some of you balk at it with a sniff of
derision. The truth though is if it's physical or metaphysical it
exists. The old metaphor of ball and chain, these desires and wishes
would bring you and bind you to the same thing you said you could not
understand. They flirt and tease your so called moral objective and
code, the values that you've been beaten and cohered into following like
some mindless herd mind to the buzzing noise in the bright lit sky. The
desires regardless of logic will swirl, hound, and shark at that
crumbing isle of 'Maybe' that exists in your own head, they will
continuously test the limitations of 'no' and bring you to your knees in
the end. So imagine if you would, that moment of pure genuine terror
and fear, that paralyzing moment you realized that no matter your
strengths or weaknesses there was no way to fight back, no way to break
free, and you were simply at whim of circumstance that had captured you
so.
That, that moment.
That is your true “Darkness”, your secret dirty desire, locked away. To
know, for just a few moments, a few seconds of each day, that ideals
like responsibility where lifted from your hands and placed simply into
the other; if it's physical or idealistic. It is neither black nor
white, neither right nor wrong. No, it is not Faith, not touching on the
idealistic or path that lead you to that, this is simply reasoning to
understand that Darkness, what it means, internally, mentally,
chemically. This is what I mean when I suggest that 'Darkness' exists in
all humans, this thing that regardless of race, sexual creed, skin
color, religious background or heritage it is there. It is that Darkness
that calls to you, that will be harnessed, corrupted, and used to place
that weight around your throat. There is no use fighting, its
inevitable.
-SADE
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