Hands In The Dark

 

“Hands In The Dark” by the Chromatics from After Dark

“Hands in the dark
Touch and depart
Fingers probe and return to the glove
And fall away across the floor
Leading left from right”

Consider also:

  1. “‘You know I will not strike, Sir pure and brave! Fight me your best–or I shall find a whip!’ That stung me, even me. He wronged me, so: Therefore some shame and hate informed the blow; Some coward’s courage pointed me the steel; Some strength of Hell: we lunge, and leap, and wheel; Hard breath and laboured hands–the flashes grow Swifter and cruel–this court hath no appeal!”
  2. “I lifted up my eyes. What soul stood there, Fronting my path? Tall, stately, delicate, A woman fairer than a pomegranate. A silver spear her hands of lotus bear, One shaft of moonlight quivering and straight. She pointed to the East with flashing eyes: ‘Thou canst not see her–but my Queen shall rise.’ Bowed head and beating heart, with feet unsure I passed her, trembling, for she was too pure. I could have loved her. No: she was too wise. Her presence was to gracious to endure. ‘She did not bid me go and chain me to her,’ I cried, comparing.”
  3. “Having dwelt for some period on that dark side of the Egyptian Faith which dooms the impotent soul to extinction; I will proceed to discuss the career opened before those who, taking the reins of the chariot of life in their own hands, guide the elemental forces which are linked to that vehicle, safe to the desirable goal.”
  4. “‘Who?’ says the Psalmist (and remember that the Psalms were the sacred hymns used in the Hebrew Mysteries), ‘Who will go up to the hill of the Lord, and ascend to His holy place? Even he that hath clean hands and a pure heart’; whence it comes that we wear white gloves and aprons as emblems that we have purified our hearts and washed our hands in innocency.”
  5. Dark Night of the Soul