Introduction to Eternity

Much too soon, the elegant end
arrives - detached, indifferent
 to the sounds of panic
  A welcoming cloak of finality
   about me; mixed feelings swirl
    Memories and dreams collapse.
     And point
      to a black hole in the future
       pulling,
        pulling,
         pulling 

             And littered at the entrance,
         bouquets
            of black flowers,
         wilting to a dark sun's
            reluctant gifts.
         Smoky cadavers of the good
            and the kind
         Trampled and pushed aside
            For you see,
         in death too, evil wins -
            Annihilation is faster.

          I shall search for them
        in this darkness
       Those I had met in the light
      A desire mutated,
     by comforting solitude.
    Then I shall see, I hope
   A single sharp unending tone of beauty
  cleaving through the clouds
 I shall hold on to it
and ride in lonely comfort
into the darkness.