Since every profile is foredoomed to destruction

each one of the profiles that together are the world

is a skull

These skulls together constitute a necklace

that dangles from the neck of a woman

She is the naked reality

standing on the corpse of the world of eyes and ears

She is the light that shines

When one is blinded

She is the noise that is heard by deafness

She is the smell when noses

are helpless

She is the taste

when the tongue is incapable of taste

She is the touch

when the skin is incapable of feeling a touch

She is thought

when the mind becomes thoughtless

She is the Dark Matter

that pulls the phnomenal world

by its nose

to utter emptiness

From darkness we come and to darkness we go

From emptiness to emptiness

From darkness to darkness

our sojourn

is ridden with hopes and despair

joys and sorrows

unions and separations

From darkness to darkness

Let us look into the eyes

of leaden eyed despair

and fall at the feet of the dark lady

who feasted on the blood of that poacher

Shakespeare

and stands on the breast of the fallen

phenomenal world

Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-darkness-to-darkness-2/