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“You darkness, from which I descend,
I love you more than the flame
which holds the earth
within the space
it brightens
and leaves all else unknown.

But the dark collects everything:
shapes and flames, animals and me,
whatever it comes upon,
peoples and powers—

Who knows—a great force may be stirring
right next to me.

I believe in the night.”