TITLE: "Come to Me"
SUMMARY: Vignettes on the nature of the Force. Dark vs. Light.
AUTHOR'S NOTE(S): This is an odd little piece, but suspend your disbelief for a moment while I takes you on a very strange and different path than you've e'er taken before. Part two is coming soon. Remember to review!
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Part I: Dark
Haven't you ever thought about Me?
Admit it: you have. I know, so don't bother denying. It's only natural, after all; everyone thinks about Me at some point. Sentient beings have always been attracted to mysteries, you humans especially. You may talk and bluster, but the truth of the matter is that, in the dark of night, you're as fearful of the secrets of the shadows as any callow youth. And, somehow, it's that fear that makes Me all the more appealing. You're all the same in the dark.
It still amuses Me to no end that you call Me an "it". Or, failing that, a "he". What manner of thing, what manner of man, could offer what I have, could wield the forces of life and death, could grant you power beyond your wildest imaginings? None, surely, that I know; you find yourself attracted to Me, the Dark, the mother of all things. You crawled forth from My womb, and a part of you still longs for the oblivion and comfort that you left behind.
The light is an illusion; you emerged from darkness, and to darkness you will return.
Has it never escaped your attention, the number of males amongst the Sith? Of course you noticed; you just never really thought about it. But it is a rare man indeed who can resist the enticement of My allure, and a rarer one still who can say that he has never strayed from the path of light, just for a moment in My arms. Give him but the smallest sample of My charms, and even the most virtuous will abandon the universe for Me.
Have the Jedi warned you of My seductions? Of how many I have already lured away from their clutches, how many true and noble warriors I have already swayed from the path of righteousness? Of how many of their number I have seduced and tricked and enticed away from the demands of duty, from the call of justice, from the ranks of the Light?
Of course they have. They always do. And, yet, they always find it unnecessary to mention what My sister does to Her lovers. My sister has a strange sense of justice, I'll tell you that much; Her champions, Her lovers have their share of happy times, but She abandons them all to the same fate. Whether She is inclined to let them sacrifice themselves for the good of the cause or if She abandons them to the whimsy of age, leaving them old and gasping in their beds, She forsakes them all for Death. They are all destined to meet the same end, alone and deserted by She to whom they devoted their lives.
Choose Me, and I ... I will give you the universe. All I ask for in return is you.
I will give you power. I will give you such strength that the stars will bend to your will, that the galaxy will spin at your command. Such might that the warriors of Light can envy; they will tremble before you, will throw themselves down at your feet. I will give you the stars, the planets, the galaxy, if you will only give me yourself in return.
And ... at night, when no one is watching, I will show you things no mortal has ever seen. I will show you the mysteries for which men trade their lives, their hearts, their souls. I will allow you to see the enigmas of the night, the secrets of the shadow. And, then, I will take you in My arms, and everything else will cease to matter.
You crave Me; you know it, deep within your bones. You lust for the mysteries of the dark and the night, crave the sensuality of My secrets, long to plunge head-first into the caverns of My hidden depths. You want Me, you ache for Me in a way you cannot fully comprehend. You hunger for the darkness; your inner demon howls for release in the blissful oblivion of My touch.
Think about it for a while, if you like. But we both know whom you'll choose in the end. You will come of your own free will, and you will come with a smile; all the universe longs for Me, in their most secret hearts, and you will laugh as you come into My arms, never to leave My embrace.
Come to Me; I will give you it all.