Considering the focus of denial,

we stepped forward,

blood running down our faces,

chemicals burning our flesh,

we were becoming,

we were ascending,

destiny was within our grasp,

like a golden ring,

promised from the gods,

 then the darkness soaked in to the everything around us,

but in the end it wasn’t the darkness that was to be feared,

 it was what was hiding within it that was our undoing…