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Into the darkness

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I was in the darkness;
I could not see my words
Nor the wishes of my heart.
Then suddenly there was a great light --

"Let me into the darkness again."

Stephen Crane, The Black Riders & Other Lines, 1905
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Almost spiritually simple.

It evokes in my mind memories of lighting candles in church after saturday benediction, incense in the air, and the accretion of melted wax around the candle-holders, that I imagined had been gathering there for decades, the remnants of a thousand prayers whispered for a thousand souls, a perfect and melancholy metaphor for purgatory.