Pandora

[MissKiss]

I don't really understand this line: "will always be more powerful than the darkness
but i conceal it with the sideways smile of a natural born killer"
As I understand it the narrator keeps the truth he has found at the temple to himself, concealed from the people who are still in the places of the first half of the poem - correct me if I'm wrong. But I still don't really understand what the two mentioned lines want to say. What darkness and why the smile of a "natural born killer"?

thanks for the feedback to me this is about a powerful, destructive truth- in opposition to absolution or forgiveness. so the line 'i conceal it with the sideways smile of a natural born killer" is saying that things aren't always what they seem- the speaker isn't innocent but she knows the truth.

the little guy- thanks for the feedback and read but not all poetry rhymes. rhyming isn't really my jam.