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Bagamlu
04:09
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How many moons turned since
I'm still picking up the pieces
Impossible to deny the beauty of the flames left in your wake
A semblance of what was had found in the faces
That should have surpassed what was
For shame
That all that was poured into a vessel
Capable of only paying forward favor with tragedy
Though the shattered remains you left are all I can hold of you now
The pieces should fall into their place
But how can this be what is meant
Come, cold apathy
Consequences delivered on the single lost wager that grants life meaning
This burden to bear, beyond engulfed
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Fractured Engrave
08:19
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Sacred Springs
Fallen from the heavens
Vernal altars
Ripe for worship
Chryselephantine gardens
Blinding mine eyes
Visionary mirrors reflecting back
Testimonies to power
The effigy's visage carved with antipodal sentiments
Reaching out to maintain its balance
Bidding prevarication
Resting on the shoulder of delusion
While the rest wait for the fall
Unviability, so evident
Testimonies to power
When wounds are open spilling humiliation
10,000 years celebrated in rapture
Culminated in endless more lifetimes of failure and death
Unending cycles of death, death
Retreat to the narrow crevice in the earth
Crawl amongst the suffocating stone
Like razors shredding skin to the bone
Dare to allow the sunlight to kiss your existence
Only as a mass of dripping red vulnerability
Embrace the shame thrown upon the fool who dared to hold his head high
With a shattered sense of self, maybe then you'll see
There is no choir to sing your way into your psychotic vision of paradise
Only the screeching dissonance fills the air to the beat of your blood dripping from your ear to the floor
Carved to the bone
The conduit of connection permanently severed
Left in suspended animation
Salivating over the obsession implanted by the embodiment of malevolence
Oblivious to the commencement of the vultures' feast
The effigy's visage carved with antipodal sentiments
Reaching out to maintain its balance
Bidding prevarication
Resting on the shoulder of delusion
While the rest wait for the fall
Unviability, so evident
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Impermanence
08:23
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And so time carries on
Left behind to decay, all but the values we hold
To emerge from youth frail and withered
Could beauty ever be mutable
Or would grace forever fail to meet my eyes
Dismal mental meanderings couldn't distract from
The wind brushing back your hair revealing
Your lashes coated in black
Their impermanence
Whipping me into cold-sweat anxiety
Divinity stay
For just a second longer
What weight I wouldn't carry
To see this form
Never laid victim
To the waste of the past
Against a backdrop of serene tranquility
Sky unmoving
The moment fleeting
Death's hand stops the clock to present
Dream now or march on to the end of the serpent's maw
How many moons passed
But still I despair at the thought of what never again is to truly mean
Solipsist to be
Solipsist to be, eternity dawns upon you
Solipsist to be, eternity dawns upon you
Memory's meaning lost to an omniscient sleep
For an infinity of this, permanence
Solipsist to be, eternity dawns upon you
Curse from a spiteful shadow
Drained the color from this world
Love, hate, beauty, sin
Dissolve to apathy
Senses numb by the static state of pure perfection
Coiled just above the brow in the waking world
Sits the serpent in pleasure
Over the husk once foolish enough to shake with the devil
What right to those who fell prey to the seductress
Even in manifestations with a fresh mind
Immortality's grown salient
So soon called infinity's dream of rapture come to an end
Peace found me in the moment of an open eye
Death's reality slipped away, lost as soon as it came
Ethereal perception blind my eyes no more
The illusion of unending euphoria
Vision long lost to monochrome
Blurring the existential demand
For the resolution of this dissonance
Against a backdrop of serene tranquility
Sky unmoving
Here in your arms, in your arms forevermore
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In Contempt
08:58
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Pinned down and swallowed by pride
The darker half of a soul held comatose and commanded not to breathe
My God it's freezing, I don't remember how it got this way
Is this winter to be eternal
I see the lamb I need to slaughter to thaw this ice
But circumstance speaks clear
The time is not right, now would be too soon
Too much to let go of, too much to lose
I see the lamb I need to slaughter and when the hour strikes for light to rest, I picture it dead
Betrayed by morality meant for what
To whom was the image of perfection concerned
In this sick test of compliance
Their laughter clouds judgement
Cast aside, failure
Foul display of human behavior
Close the cell and let the light of decay burn the scum clean off the earth
Mockery to the vision of paradise
Dance in the menagerie
The devil you are, under the scope
Mockery to the vision of paradise
Dance in the menagerie
The devil you are, under the scope
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Forcing a new moon to rise
Beneath the weight of threads once woven together now severed
Fate cast thee to pieces
Condemned to blind myself
Earth pigmented parchment, cover my eyes from a truth I cannot bear
A veil once lifted can never be replaced, yet carry on I must
Bereaved from normalcy
Voices bounce from my head through the wall
Spirit of wisdom grant me comfort in these final moments before a total curtain call commands me return to a divine light
Suffocating under symbols
I've lost my grip and cannot escape from this cosmic nightmare
No retribution
For I am victim to the flow of a destiny that I'll never know
For all I may hope for is to one day dance in defiance of the God that made them bow
I cannot force a new moon to rise
Untethered, I'm lost and overwhelmed
Handed over to evil as punishment
The consequences of defiance, left all alone
Species damned to solitary confinement
The psychopathic infection to all existence
What kind of weak excuse for a parent leaves their creation in the wilderness to justify their absence
No praise, no worship should be shown to the cowardly force that left us on our own
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Deafly, Venus Sat
07:29
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Your mountain of promises scrapes the sky
Engorged on sacrifices
The dreams of the newborn
Like a rising wave, destined to crash down upon the sands of time
Forgotten along with all of the misery endured
Face pressed to the asphalt and dragged for a lifetime
An existence of exhaustion that no sleep can remedy
Years slipped through fingers worked to the bone
Years slipped through fingers old and withered
Reflecting on a life with no substance to show
Tomorrow holds no silver lining when everyday is lived in gray
Miraculous, profound essence of the universe
Reduced to means only to be discarded to make for the next to enter the machine
Judgement handed from God
Perpetuated by man and machine
The perpetrators of our own collective misery
When will the sun shine
I've paid my time
I want my rest
When will the fucking clouds part
When will the sun finally fucking shine
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