Legion

My name? I have no name
for we are many

        He do them, she do them
        we do them in different voices 

I will show you pretty things
and let you choose
I will give you food and drink
and whet your tooth 

I will give you golden dreams
– unmade things will come alive –
I will show you how men grieve
as all things break and die 

I will take you to the brink
of that first day
and crown you as the reborn prince
of all worlds yet to be 


I will sit at your feet in my right mind

Included in Poems 3.

The possibility that those demons might channel the voices which tested Jesus in the wilderness.