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Passage
11:06
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Picturesque in innocence
Tranquil by design
No Earthly cares dissuade
The natural beauty of life
Born without prejudice
Idealistic towards all things
Prospects, indifference
Variance by the day
Like running water circles ‘round the drain
Unending cycle manifests with age
Slowly the focus shifts, dreams pass, never sought
The child once vibrant, a grown man long forgot
We wander aimlessly
Grasping at vacant strings
And curse the world for disdain within
Vanity the mirror holds
An abode to dwell alone
Rendering existence
A whimper
What usurper time
To thieve away your youthfulness, and mind
A trace of dust, swept from the lens
To drift away
Years stream by
Clutching to hopes left unfulfilled
Striving vainly only to watch them die
What point in being if only to serve and suffer?
As lowly cogs worked to death for their greed
Culture misconstruing what bears worth
Your possessions mean nothing
A fine balance irrevocably sways
To crush all feelings of youth
Salt your tongue, and grow old
Lines cover my face, my soul
The days are quickening
Soon the grave shall call
What is my answer?
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2. |
Consigned To Oblivion
12:53
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Thoughts long erasing the boundary
Perpetual haze deludes what I see
So cruel is time towards my soul
Abandoned, forgotten, to means my own
I bear scars of a life, from when I do not know
This place I now reside, 'til Death revokes my trace
No visitor bestows, veiled presence grace my eyes
What eon long enough, to weather my disdain?
A vacant blessing, an extension to creation
Vessel now motionless, withdrawn perceptions dear
Confusion dominates, the pulse drives me to anger
The tide drifts by, the plane retreats and fades forever
I rise beyond the confines of my breath
Transcend the within to comprehend my fate
The scepters laugh, pitch sand, and mock my sight
They force me back, I awake to a room bathed in white
Behind disguised masks my aggressors advance
To restrain my battered frame, lo, one serpent interjects
"Your eyes deceive, behold no legion you're privy
You departed long ago to sail the mind's I
Without end"
Alone I stand
Shunned from the light
Combing shadows forever in vain
Who watches from afar
As my voice litters the sky of this world?
No one hears
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3. |
Woe
14:07
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I hide away from the sun
In shadows to face another dawn
Years of existence have passed me by
I tread creation alone
Indifferent to my solitude
What cruel irony to reap as one sews
Regrets bore my invective
Now thoughts obscure my scope
Mass misery unfolding, so relentless
I bastardize and forsake all hope
Coming to terms with things evasive
Never succumb to that which I abhor
Disdain for self ever prevalent
Such disgust for this mortal coil
Transcending laws of nature, break the constraints of man
Errant quest of futility?
Disavowing all companions, to strive for purity
No love shall ever grace my presence
What poignant revelation to unconscious state of mind
Logic devoid, absent herein
Rebuttal to years of suppression
Discipline of the self?
So set in ways am I, inept to change
Despite constant mental contusions
Epiphany blindsides me
To learn I am still fucking human
I exist in disillusion
Focus amiss
To drink my sorrows away
Here I sit on my throne of isolation
Condemned to this grief forevermore
I suffer the things of my own making
Dismay for the reality of my life
Eternally forlorn
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4. |
All Is Lost
10:42
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Morning's light warms my flesh
I wait for her return, my precious child
Her golden hair, her goddess smile
Traits from her late mother
The light of day slowly fades away
As I stand calling her by name
The sun disappearing over the fields
I begin to worry, she is not here
Hasten into the forest, sickening thoughts begin to plague me
My heart pounds harder as the visions grow
Crushed basket lain before me
Once delicate fruit covers the snow
A trail not her own
The blood portrays the events
Torn pieces of her dress
All that remains
I travel further into the winter's dungeon
The darkest of caves confronts my path
The remains of my child now lay motionless
God's most beloved creature now lies in ruin
Tears begin to run as I touch her face
For it was the only thing that remained in place
My angel, my last love extinguished
A light burning brightest now ceases to be
Slowly I feel it growing and spreading
My mind breaks, the psyche manifests
Weaving it's own circuitry into this living human shell
I fade into the abstract of the last flickering light of what was
Once me
Inside the cave my child's murderer lay
Blood spattered fur begins to move
The piercing blue eyes shine through the darkness
With unreserved hate, I draw my weapon
She charges
I thrust my hand with my silver blade
Blood gushes from her chest to cries of pain
She lunges and mauls my throat
An even trade
Two bodies fall to the Earth as life fades from one
Last purpose an epiphany, accept my fate and move on
The wind is whispering, gently moving me forward
Time begins to slow
Down
My love and child appear before me
They motion me forward with open arms
I feel their warmth covering my body
I plummet to the watery depths
My fate crystalized
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5. |
To Weep Forever
16:34
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So many moons ago I left for lands
As a young man wandered
Past vast kingdoms, desolate deserts, treacherous forests
On my travels I encountered a beauty of immeasurable degree
My weary heart reignited, an illusion of Eden
Belying her splendor, she accepted my unworthy being
She alone, my soul's only comfort, a life I'll nary forget
Together we walked through the fields
I caressed her in my arms
We cared no longer for the woes of this world
The skies above, the Earth below
Dared not afflict our rapture
This paradise we dreamed to last forever
But my journey it seemed could not come to an end
The soil we walked bore no harvest
With great misery I disappeared to the night
The days segue endless and oblivion taunts
From light of dawn until the sun greets dusk
I break my frame just to keep hope alive
Much time is lost, but my pockets grow heavy
Save sustenance I forward every cent
This painful voyage now draws to a close
I will wait no more
Winter I depart
My torso is frozen
But nothing will obstruct this trek
Homeward
I lie face down in the dirt
My body ravaged by the cold
So long I have suffered, so long without her
With my last ounce of strength I rise
I force myself across the strath
Adrenaline now surges, final stretch spreads the horizon
Like a thief, on this night in the blistering winds I come
Walking blind through the storm, she will sense my approach
All these years in lands afar, have I weathered such tides
Solace only contemplating return
I reach the terrace by dawn
Through the door to my love quivering inside
But her skin, once lovely, now so fragile and pale
A sunken shell filled only with sorrow
Fading light flees her eyes, she collapses in my grasp
Death's callous hand doth precede me here
Alone I walk through our fields
She lays limp in my arms
I can no longer feel my feet meet the Earth
God above or God below
No one spares me an answer
I am left here to weep forever.
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Nightfall
Rising from burnt dens a many
Plodding forth star-guided sand
Bid adieu to all we've known
To sojourn against the winds
Vultures watch, awaiting the dawn
The old, the weak, the exhausted will fall
Our only lands eviscerated, dishonored
Funded, they destroy what's left
"Defense" masquerading theft
And like my fathers before me
I walk barren paths once more
Possessions few, my heart long empty
My children passed, my wife the same
No one left to greet my arrival
Gunfire besieges us all
Ethnic-cleansing their basic protocol
Unarmed assailants, or casualties of war?
Irrelevant to a head-turning world
Blood decorates this night
I wipe the sand from my face
My skin, pale and torn
Companions motionless, cold
I gaze towards the sky, and die
Alone
Will man never learn lessons from the past
Slaughter our own kind, scars will never heal
Religion and race, a tragic mold to cast
Humanity presides an eternal funeral mass
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