Garden of Eden

The hollowness I darenot speak of,

The echoes of the silence,

They resonate of the bleakness

Before my eyes.

Hidden are the secrets

Of the garden of Eden

A place verdant,

And filled with life.

It is a hope beyond my reach,

A place where damned souls

Are not to be.

Inferno, paradiso,

The divine's comedy,

Sometimes the flames threatened to engulf.

but sometimes in my wildest dream,

I glimpsed Eden.

Sometimes I landed in the in-between,

the place half-hell, half-paradise,

The place where good and evil often meet,

The place where savages rage wars,

The place where sometimes you may glimpse a sliver of goodness,

Of love that is pure,

Of light that is pure.