For And From My Heart

Never, ever, ever upon a time,

there was no kingdom at all,

no magic,

no Dragons,

no Knights,

no sandwiches

(not that sandwiches were really missed, not in a land where one has “toasties”) –


and, indeed, there was no time at all.

no space.

no dimensions.

just darkness.


Now, how was there darkness?

Wasn’t there nothing?

Why, no!

No,

there was something, something

like nothing,

specifically,


there was no world,

no spaceships,

no Moon landing,

no alien,

exactly one taco

(I ate it, sorry)

and darkness, darkness.


Never ever ever ever,


there was that of which

George Harrison told us to beware:

Darkness.


In this world of emptiness,

this world where all there was

was the absence of anything to see,

the ability to move forever and a day

and go nowhere,

this blinding shadow without end,


there was only one thing,

not a tangible thing,

not a physical thing,

not a thing you could hear

or sense

or taste (be grateful),


just the one thing, the one

damn

thing,

my ultimate and

implacable hatred

of all other humans

everywhere,

everywhen,

everyhow,


a force,

a thing,

a sensation,

a being

so vast

that it had its own

plane

its own dimension

its own ultra-space,


and all that blackness

is contained in my heart

and my heart

(as I’ve told you before)

isn’t there;


there’s nothing but a black

hole in

my chest, and now,

at last,

you know a little what that hole is like.


Humanity,

I hate you as a whole,

but you have some very nice individuals,

and to be perfectly honest,

I think that’s actually a bit more optimistic

than how most people feel about the world.


So it is;

so mote it be;

Excelsior!


 


Jeff Mach



 


My name is Jeff Mach (“Dark Lord” is optional) and I build communities and create things. Every year, I put on Evil Expo, the Greatest Place in the World to be a Villain. I also write a lot of fantasy and science fiction.. You can get most of my books right here. Go ahead, pre-order I HATE Your Prophecy“. It may make you into a bad person, but I can live with that.


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