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Rust and Rot
09:28
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Across the sea
Sights long forbidden to me
Shape entropy
Non euclidean
Compounding dread
Atop this mountain head
I stare instead
Through oblivion
This serpent's path
Crooked and onyx black
Moves slow then fast
Along meridians
With these words an oath is sworn
Grains of sand upon a shore
Let me sleep
With roots in temples deep
Their secrets keep
Veneration
Existence placed
Amid cold death's embrace
No gods to save from
Damnation
I am
I was
Fragments of heart and home
As long as there is death
There's hope
For us
Left ossified
I am
I was
A living fossil breathing stone
As long as there is death
There's hope
For us
Left ossified
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2. |
The Middle Distance
08:10
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The first thing that I recall
is darkness
A papered over and fading memory
For what that's worth
We live
We die
The reasons why
Unknown to all
Who are to come and came to past
Trees tops reach out
Twisted tortured hands
At long last we stare into
And long for
The middle distance
Only ashes and embers remain
For fallen paupers and kings
Always the way of things
The end comes we gaze into
And focus on
The middle distance
The blood in time will lose its power
Every waking and wasted hour
Fragile seas falling towers
The light fades we fall into
And join with
The middle distance
Our end is built into
Our beginning
Shouting
Crying
Screaming
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3. |
Hauntology
08:15
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The future
Is something that
should have started long ago
My only
hope is that
it's different from today
Separate saviours
We are all strangers
I don't even know myself
Life is overwhelming
If there's more to
life than meets the eye
Then what earthly use am I
Life is overwhelming
How could the void be worse
Destined descending
A favour at first
In time a curse
Your life is
Such a horrible thing
to choose to sleep through
What if someday
Truly never comes
and this is all that there is
What is the ocean
If not a collection of drops
Across seas of time
To crash against rocks
Voyaging through
Strange aeons alone
No one comes all
The way back from
Regret the past
Hate the present
It won't last
Dread the future
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4. |
Hungry Ghosts
05:17
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False lights fade into darkness
Empty shadows
Hungry ghosts
Give a wolf your leg
And they'll ask for your arm
They feed for days
Slaked swollen but starved
Stone tombs decrepit
Invectives long gone
Their kingdoms behind us
The world moves on
Corpse striding
Colossus
Gigantic
Ancient and voiceless
A world that's given you everything
And you will never forgive it
Barren roads lead to
Rotten churches called home
An emptiness inside me
I can never extinguish
Time will destroy those
Who are already dead
As sure as the sun rises
No need for demons
With saints like these
Guilt touches all and baptizes
Barren roads lead to
Rotten churches called home
An emptiness inside me
I can never extinguish
Before
Once More
Spiral
downwards
My Fall
Will matter
Least of all
Now
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5. |
With Dead Eyes
05:26
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Clouds menace the horizon
Plotting against the day
Dawn rains long since forgotten
But their essence still remains
Doomed orchids soft and pale
Wretched where they lie
Fire flies like flecks of blood
Against a bruise coloured sky
With dead eyes
Brought back into focus
These rotting hills proclaim
Cryptic graveborn edicts
Seething venom and disdain
Blackened time worn towers
Imposing where they sit
When those hills call out for me
I don't hear it
I feel it
A twisted tortured rictus
Stretched across time and space
With dead eyes
This sunken hollow absence
Skeletal in shape
With dead eyes
Pestilent wave rising
Nothing in its' wake
With dead eyes
Infinity stretched before my eyes
Yet I can't help but live in my head
With dead eyes
What good's a soul
When there's no place to go
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HERON Vancouver, British Columbia
Life is overwhelming.
How could the void be worse?
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