Dark Currents

www.iuniverse.com UNAWARE page 56 Guilt, manipulation and financial support were the reliable means to keep me in a permanent state of adolescence. Thereby giving you control and power over me - it was never about love it was always about power. Every act for me bar none was coming under the guise of a selfless act of love. Nevertheless, all the while there was a unknown price tag that could never be paid back. What I find remarkable is that the more abusive and controlling a person becomes the less aware they are of their actions, and its effects on those who surround them. 74 WISDOM Upon acceptance of true divine knowledge and wisdom yield a huge hindrance, for one must bear the price of using it. 144 BRUISED FACES I stared at the bruises today. They formed faces and wanted to stay. I have grown to adapt to their moans and accept them as beautiful tones. Their melodies from the sphere of seven cast down from heaven. All of this aligned with the numbers that equal nine. Know your will comes from below beyond the grave and the shadow. This is truth and what is to be for my essence is available for all to see. Dark Currents A Journey Into The Abyss Copyright © 2008 by Arthur F. Temple All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. iUniverse books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting: iUniverse Table of Contents CHAPTER I: MEMORIES 1 Childhood Mantra 2 Put Him in the Corner 4 Mailbox 6 Caretakers 8 Th e Race 10 Never Again 12 Zero 14 Spilt Milk 16 Lunchtime 18 Pierced My Heart 20 Knife Fight 22 Gun Fight 24 Musket 28 Car Incidents 30 Man of the Cloth 36 Th e Light Fixture 38 Quantum Leap 42 Alone to Sleep 44 Grieve 46 Shoulder to Lean On 48 Ransom 50 Fabrication 52 Impurity Hole 54 Unaware 56 Valentine’s Day 58 Unconditional Love 64 Door 66 Patriarch 68 CHAPTER II: PROVERBS 73 Wisdom 74 Responsibility 76 Santa Claus 78 Know Not 80 Results 82 Dreams 84 Cycle of Violence 86 Animated Corpses 88 Cycle of Doom 90 Snake Oil 92 Hungry Lion 94 Destructive Desires 96 Truth 98 Negative Statement 100 Enemy 102 CHAPTER III: SOCIETY 105 Speak Your Truth 106 Shame of Questioning 108 Carnival 110 Th e Bureaucracy 112 Fool’s Gold 114 Common Sense 116 Th e Greatest Sin 118 International City 120 CHAPTER IV: ABYSS 123 Disconnect 124 Th e Oath 126 Alone and Condemned 128 Cheating Death 130 Dead Tumor 132 Th ree A.M. 134 No Luciidity 136 Nothingness 138 Clandestine Air 140 Open the Door 142 Bruised Faces 144 Burden 146 Dragon 148 Slaughtered Peacock 150 My Breath 152 Putrid Chamber 154 Approach Me 156 Rage 158 Death of a Dream 160 Th e Fumes 162 Ballroom 164 Th e Legion 166 Break the Veil 168 Yeast 170 Tainted Mirror 172 Forehead 174 Diff erent Perspective 176 Defi ance 178 Flowers 180 Rotting Corpse 182 Schizophrenic Tyrant 184 Taste the Pain 186 Two Monsters 188 Dogs 190 Wolf Bat 192 Laws 194 Hypocracy 196 Insult 198 Freedom is Demanded 200 Th ank You 202 Return to Me 204 1663 Liberty Drive Bloomington, IN 47403