You Darkness That I Come From

You darkness, that I come from,

I love you more than all the fires

that fence in the world,

for the fire makes

a circIe of light for everyone,

and then no one outside learns of you.

But the darkness pulls in everything:

shapes and fires, animals and myself,

how easily it gathers them! --

powers and people --

and it is possible a great energy

is moving near me.

I have faith in nights.