The Beast and the shadow

Dark eyes and a spine of spikes, hunched with muscles tensed.
Nails pointed teeth sharp and putrid breath anticipating death.


No bad deed undone, no bad thought not followed through, the bestial belief is fear!
Though tears are shed, so private the pain for the desire for light, pierces his heart with despair


My father, my grandfather and every sired master, so the long line of learned lust brings me to this very day
The act, the evil, the flesh devoured to satisfy nourish me but peace in my soul does not allay


I am the darkness, the nightmares are light, and my presence on this path is unwelcomed by the predator himself and tasteless prey
My prey is the light, their path is virtue, yet there journey is broken and often strayed

I look upon my shadow the light of the golden sun, unattached from my body, but leaked from my soul. The master reflection is still dark
My prey, yet hero’s shadow is dark as my soul that brightens with melancholy and feeling of certainty in my heart


I desire your life, my banshee scream, directed towards my prey in a moment of confused clarity
The scared reply of pity and condemnation towards a beast’s plea of redemption and purity


This was met with equal shame from the beast; the new belief of hope was dashed by the cruelty of the light
Was there not a way, to trade our opposing souls? Righteousness, beauty can be achieved without a celestial fight


The prey pointed to the beast’s shadow pearlescent and comparatively brimming with beauty and self worth
The beast sold his shadow for the prey’s offering of his own dark soul and for eternal pain he felt deserved



The daylight rose, and the golden sun revealed the truth, hidden by the twilight’s stillness and darkness despair
Then the beast and prey’s shadows, both crept away from the body whose against their souls they have no care


The eternal truth revealed itself, through the enlightenment the beast knew and upon his shadow he did gaze
The lightness in his darkest reflection was gone and a paradox ensued and his hope was raised


He understood the dichotomy and how the truth once exposed can lead one to a righteous path
The idea that a shadow is not a reflection, but equilibrium in the universe from the soul to the body mass