Temptation of Darkness
Probably the progress of civilization
Would inevitably be accompanied by
A harsh frustration
Or else why an ideal, sometimes
Became a nightmare
A sort of choice
Suddenly made time back flow
Probably human life
Really came of mud and rock
An abyss, was their home town
Difficult to bid farewell to
Muddiness and ruthlessness
Were their ugliness forever invisible
History probably for lasting long enough
To get benumbed
Brilliance might be so generous
That a deluge of things in whatever age
Probably in the end, all
Couldn’t avoid an atrophy
Savageness was a hidden rule of instinct
Once a man was depraved as well as the order
The power of darkness would tell you
What a shadow was
An indescribable dance of animosity
Trampled the soul of moral to pieces
With time and space illuminated by crimes
Only a reversed conscience
Could
Prevail
Over a vain actuality
All the pure dignity and tiny happiness
Would face the wrings of an
Illiberal reason
Justice must be devastated
To see clearly the fact of soul
Nicety must be demolished
To set off
The loftiness of an idol
Were you not to dedicate all your life to the Devil
Death, would be
The price of your character
The entire generation was
Almost like this, bended
Under the violent principles
Being dearly loved by lies
They had to accept
The baptism of an ignorant hurricane
And gave repeatedly along with careerists
Without a back turning
The kind culture
The calm truth
A big clean-out
The sequacious pleasure
An unmerciful revelry
An irrational storm swept over the mansion of democracy
Confused creeds, struck through
Nerves of all legal system
Science was painfully broken down
Literature and arts, were driven by an extreme
Dogmatism
Into
A purgatory of New China
Human rights in an age, was already
Totally canceled by
A persistent hysteria
The choked human nature
Could only in a nightmare sorrowfully
Vindicate in an emotional sigh
Those nearby angels
Suffering a trample
Executioners were in a withered garden
Drinking to their heart’s content
Thinkers’ blood
Darkness with its abundant energy
Was crowning darkness
All the creations, like fire burning
Were gushing with a forge-like base singing
Dirtiness on the broad land
Was loafing around all day
Idling away with a bloodshot emptiness,
A sort of days without culture
And tasting with a boring fight
Others’ normal
Deserving no opposition
As if overnight a race
All became warriors
A cradle of civilization
As if overnight, became everywhere
Battlefields
A never failing bombing of aural publicity
A specious
Attack on knowledge
Sticks and guns were brandished at progress and innocence
Who could learn unexplainable rants
Who would ascend
The vogue of this time
Betrayal was hope
To betray, would bring you
Rays of desire
A false accusation was a passion one must have
To tell on someone was sometimes also
A sort of belief
Persecution could bring a balance to many people
What deserved commiseration
Keeping a standpoint firm
You were the people, being the people
You would never lose your bearing
Logic was losing its chastity awkwardly and shyly
Axiom sadly backed off
Ignorance dominated
The spirit of the entire society
A bloody fairy tale
Could make absurdity
Quickly uproot
All kind men’s “stagnant” vision
Do not say to me
You’ve ever had life
Do not let me discover
The degenerative lily of you
Hidden in the memory
And the butterfly of serious problems
Do not let me feel the warmth you’ve ever had
Harmony was a sort of rottenness
In this time of us wanting flames
Day and night
Loftiness was already unable to serve as a model
The magnificence of original truth
Had long been not fresh
You should know how to
Destroy and create
Be sure not to let a dagger drowsy
Only through an undisguised revolution
Only after swallowing
All the poisonous grass writing
You can then realize, a sort of
Merriment to oaths
O, darkness
Where were you from
From where did you descend
In what name did you descend
To paralyze the unyielding
Did your droopy moonlight
Softening our imagination
Endow memory with endless pains
Was mankind only so
Could it attain rich thought
With which for us to mock nature
To adore craziness
For all our rusticity like notes fleeing hither and thither
To evaporate one by one
Among the faddish savageness and wilds
And for kiss, to immediately
Make a lover wither away in beguiling arms
A face secreting evil
Thus presented but
A terrible health
Conspiracies being immersed in an abscondence of humanity
Terrorism, again
Smelled
The sweetness of autarchy
We were as if tightly wound
By a charming evil magic
Sucking the pale
Sucking a poison mushroom-like consciousness
The tongue in its emotional expression of immense lies
Along with a sort of eddy
Could only be filled with
A perplexity after meaningless hubbubs
To be involuntary, or
To speak insincerely
Were all not
Our fault
A planet was catching fire
Many an eye were getting blind
Maniacs were with their skulls
Decorating benignly
Their dark sky
A spiritual aroma
Exhaled from the dead
Occasionally would also make the devil
Possessed
Somehow or other
Beneath the lonesome heaven
Was also chillily splitting
With a woe of creation
Whose shocking dissimilation
Seemed as if summing up a sort of punishment
Human elites
Must at this point become rats
And had to at this point comb secretly
The years ignorant of its fate
In a social abhorrence
With no asylum attainable
This world
Needed a disinfection at large
Iodine was needed to rub on political patients
Ruthlessly on those rebels sinister gangs
A reactionary academic authority
As well as unconscious evil cells of all the capitalist-road chooser
Dreams and the like
Must be completely destroyed
All languages, should only be
For that kind of
Liberation not to be seen until forever
Knock down, comma
Knock down, period
Knock down knock down knock down
Knock down bad elements
Exclamation mark
Exclamation mark
Exclamation mark
Your tears
Were submerged in the ocean
All perfections
Were wounded
Knees knelt heavily under the red flag
Once defended by your life
The body that had warded off bullets
Today, however
Couldn’t somehow ward off the fatal medals
That had brought you honor
Achievements became a humiliation
And love the rascal
If thinking couldn’t be consistent with the movement
If each and every family, did not
Prepare well
The inflation of loyalty
Modern fascists
Would knock on the door
Cruel genealogy would environ you
Until it checked up your three generations, for why
You were all dressed so
O, a lost decade
A decade when only darkness was lucky
O, a decade with a continuous conquest of truth
A decade when terror’s great reputation
Was edifying your body
Great teachers were banished by stupid men
Batches by batches
Treasures and essence of human civilization
In large exiles for times
Could hear no more the wail of value
The firelight flaming
Your lips tirelessly
Still wanted to ask for instructions whatever
Phantoms being flickering
You did not dare to be clear about
What sort of indignation this was in human life
Intelligence was collapsing
Growth was hesitating at the verge of death
The upper air was pouring noise at midnight
Even if facing a butchery, you
Must still talk calmly
No one had secrets
Mountain chains were staring blankly in desolation
Compromise in darkness was
In bud
Probably to commit suicide was the most effective endurance
Blood drops rolling down to the earth
This unique solution
Radically, perhaps
Would enable the people to forgive all
Did our paddy fields still need
Those stained stomachs
Did our memos, still need
Foisting into
Paper never mewled
Was our breath audible to hunters
Hadn’t the shudder of millions of people long been
Cast into a national martyr
An elf fire was naming an era
Palace of darkness was alive with none
But the beauty of sacrificial rites
O men, being in turmoil
What did you exactly want to appeal to
All going to the embrace of Azrael
Could loneliness really
Bear afresh one
A tragic heroicness
Be closer to me
Wish my lifetime eventually such an opportunity
Of witnessing with honor again your
Visage daring to deny all
Please walk into my heart
To get a look at a tragedy, and
A sort of Judgment Day
Before my five internal organs completely
Became a fire heap gathered
On your touch
Darkness, I want to return to you
The concentrated pressure
Let you equally at a volcanic crater
Absolutely inadaptable to you
Immediately disappear
How could a saintly life allow itself
To be nourished shamelessly
By darkness
Even if you were tough ice, a
Sort of figure
Never approachable
Even if you were a thin smell
A hazy image
Getting out of our human soul depth
Cursing brightness
Even if you were a cocoon firmly entrenched in the palm
With a hidden predestination
Swearing not to separate with me
Yet after a decade of endurance
A decade of orisons without hope
After 10 years’ aftertaste scorching but fine
After all the smash
Pure as that of jades
Even after, each second’s
Dry breath
Of crossing a dead sea
Now, a futile bargain
Has ended
You don’t need to place me anew within your
Hypocritical rights
It’s impossible for me to
Grovel continuously before your
Brilliance either
With only one sort of reflection
I want to be in the streets and lanes
Looking for an aspiration again
I want to be before a
Headspring contracting for disservice
Holding up my ancient and pure expression
I want to be familiar afresh with
My dead innocence
Because of an unfounded cowardice and naivety
A causeless rejection and struggle
I will remain at
The horizon obliterated by you
For the human sympathy
For a sort of permanent sigh
Setting up for generations
A righteous pillar
Let conscience open its mouth
Whenever some solemn and quiet things
In the good name of courtesy
Sneak into a dark night
Let ears watch out
What reaching the ear from a faraway forest
Wish it be
The greenness enabling us to imagine peace
But no longer
Combative rotes
What do we still want to oppose
Besides death and poverty
Unblocked dark clouds
Frailty and earthquakes
For what should we still
Be puzzled
And for none of what
After a tragedy and catastrophe
Should we still be slow to resume for ourselves
The function of subsistence
Brightness has come
Yet
Why do we
Still need to wait in darkness
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