So I wrote a poem

In the grim darkness of the far future…

As the darkness clashes with the purity

Of Innocence

The wicked corners of one’s mind

Conjures up the images

Of grotesque shadows dancing in the dim streetlight

Tainted with red

As the small child

Clutching a headless bear in her arms

Weeps to the corpses that not so long ago

Held her and read bedtime stories to her

Yes I shall write and

The words that fall upon the page

Were twisted, tangled and torn

The heart that spills ink

As black as night

Was pierced with shatters of broken emotion

Imagination takes you to the darkest corner of the earth

As I sit before the lighted screen

And type out the words

So powerful, yet

So fragile

Like the thin thread

That fate lies upon

There is only war…

Grimdark:  An adjective taken from the root words of grim and darkness, both of which are featured in the tagline for Warhammer 40,000: "In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war." It is usually used to describe a setting that would equal poor living conditions and life expectancies for those actually living in it.