Maybe I write about darkness because there, the faintest spark of light becomes a revelation.
People sometimes ask why my words, my lyrics, my poetry, so often turn toward shadows. The truth is, I never chose the darkness—it chose me, and it has walked beside me for as long as I can remember.
I was fourteen when I wrote my first poem. It was about death and the Last Judgment. My grandmother wept when she read it. I couldn’t understand why; to me it wasn’t even a good poem. Yet somehow it reached into her heart, uncovering something I had never meant to expose. That was the first time I realized that words can wound and heal in the same breath.
During my university years, I began shaping the language that would later find a home in Darkwave. One of those early poems became Soul Hunt on the Horror Sacri album. Already my voice was steeped in sacred imagery, in the language of faith and mystery. I wasn’t merely writing about religion—I was dreaming in its symbols, breathing its archetypes into the fabric of my verses.
Then came exile, in a sense—a few years abroad. Distance carved new patterns into me. In unfamiliar streets, in a culture not my own, I found that my words began to carry the weight of estrangement. I discovered how sacred images can be turned inside out, made paradoxical, unsettling, luminous and terrifying all at once.
And when a deep friendship later shattered, its absence became a new kind of presence. Out of that silence rose the realization that human bonds are as fragile as glass, and just as easily broken. This fracture still echoes in me, and I have only begun to translate it into sound and verse for the music yet to come.
Why, then, do I always return to darkness?
Because it is there, in the stillness of the night, that the soul dares to speak its truth. Because death and faith are mirrors—darkened, cracked, but still reflecting our questions back at us. And because in the abyss, even the smallest light is enough to change everything.
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