dark aeons in the beginning there was darkness in the middle there was light and at the end of endings there was eternal night in the beginning there was darkness of utter midnight black from nothingness it came to fill the void of light it seeped into creation and tainted lifes faint glow reminder of the nothingness come forth at start of all it hid in shadows and the night ever lurking , ever there it watched from seas and caverns deep ever watching , ever waiting it darkened stars fiery birth and led them to oblivion where they found creation with open maws ever hungry , ever greedy it told of destruction and ultimate end but waited silently in space between letting the song of stars flow through it adding their screams into the light it flitted between the specks of dust and fled as dust came together as one circling the lights that heralded life and waiting for a chance to grow it watched from the heavens as fire reigned beneath on a thousand worlds , on a thousand moons and the flames of creation subsided and died letting cool water do work for it all it sat idly as thought and life took their forms it watched and it twisted the figures it saw into the grotesque , foetid and macabre and the nightmares that haunt both our days and our nights in the middle there was light as the spirit of darkness was driven far from our selves and we lived in bliss under the warm rays of our stars reveling in the life and the light we had gained it watched from dark spaces where we dare not look in the backs of our minds where insanity lurks we knew it was there but pushed it out of our heads for fear that its knowledge would doom us all in the end we built up our temples to our gods and our thoughts in hopes that the gifts given us would be great seeking ever more from our generous creators failing to see the lurking darkness within we ordered ourselves with logic and light forgetting the midnight that filled up our past instead seeing only the brilliant light of the stars the darkness without never crossing our minds civilization arose and peace rang out true except when the darkness came out into light and the beings of the light became beasts of the darkness as the forgotten spawn of midnight came out to play and light did then win and the darkness was banished though it lived on in the minds of the poor and the stricken and those souls untouched by the lights glowing warmth cursed forever to live with the darkness inherent as time passed us by and our decadence soared we forgot then completely of what we were born and denying the darkness that lives in us all gave it the power it needed to rise and so again it appeared , the primordial darkness just as the pendulum swings cross the pit and the wingless bird plummets down to the ground so did civilization fall to its knees and all that there was did succumb to the shadows in the back of the mind , behind the light of the lamp in the darkest of cellars and the shadiest trees and we wept as the stars winked out one by one light swallowed by darkness that lurked in it all that consumed all the light and left none for itself and so did dark aeons come then to pass to bring everything that ever was to its end and at the end of endings there was eternal night .