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Tread the Dark is arranged
in such a fashion,

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as to give you a theme of
the metaphysical emptiness

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with which I confront the world.

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The big word is the cosmos.

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And how we regain
a foothold in life,

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how it's possible to regain a
foothold after this vacancy.

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So I don't intend to read
the whole book by no means,

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but I want to read one or two
poems that will make you--

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that will put you closer
to the scene than what

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I'm saying at the moment.

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I'll read you the very first
poem of the book itself, which

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states the theme I believe.

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It's titled Brightness
as a Poignant Light.

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I tread the dark, and
my steps are silent.

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I am alone, and feel a
ghostly joy, wildly free

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and yet I do not live
absolutely and forever.

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But my ghostly joy is that I am
come to light, for some reason

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known only to the dark.

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Perhaps to view itself in me.

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As I tread the dark, led by
the light of my pulsating mind,

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I am faithful to
myself, my child.

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Still, how can I'd be happy to
have been born only to return

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to my father, the dark?

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To feel his power and die.

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I take comfort that
I am my father,

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speaking as a child
against my fatherhood.

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This is the silence I hear
my heart beating in, but not

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for me.