Lightbringer

Herald the dawn

For with it comes

Terrors searing far fiercer

Than midnight’s own.

Truth is a bladed shield

Harm and amour

Love, Hate, Dichotomy

Held at arm’s length, both hands outstretched

To blind with a whisper’s light,

Or glow bright with a kiss.

Truth is

An illumination

Where shadows sharpen into knife-angles

deception becomes tooled

Secret-forged steel,

Where facets glare unseemly –

but real.

Where the deviant finds last recourse

when all else is despoused

Perception unwed,

Fact unbridled

And fiction brought about.