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I
07:44
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They are never truly gone
Those who have shed their forms
Their shadows linger on
Presence in absence
Their promised resolved
The world cannot rush in to fill their void
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2. |
II
10:42
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Matter to flesh, matter to flesh
Annexed, possessed, and taken away
An hour convulsed, quickened by life
Echoing in the cold clockwork of starlight
Time is a flow, time is a flow
Eddies and whorls swirling free
Transient canyons in eternity’s frozen sea
Guiding you forth into tomorrow
Fated to range the fluid terrain
O sightless guide, you grope the horizon
Seeking some lodestar in vain
Until you vanish beneath the crystal waves
And the dredge of your weight gives the sea its shape
Be without fear
When your lungs fail to draw air
Be without grief
When they bear down, those years
Laden with agonies
From which you are spared
Dissolve, divest the pain
Give birth to a new day
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III
05:14
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Where quiet penitents
Meditate on impermanence
And ethereal hands
Guide mighty blades
From point to point
On the immanent plan
Cut down by the billions
Fates clipped from the firmament
The cosmic scryer squints
And narrows her augury
The future a slum
Your enclave the present
Transience turns on all its old friends
The heavens precipitate
They do not forefend
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4. |
IV
08:01
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They are never truly gone
Those who have shed their forms
Their shadows linger on
Presence in absence
Their promised resolved
The world cannot rush in to fill their void
We, the shattered, we shall endure
In the vales of silence and ash
Bodiless, immortal, pure
We are invincible, perpetual in the past
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5. |
V
13:15
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Into the moment your animus drained
Into the instant your energies poured
The transformation takes hold
Consummating the bargain the body made
And so you will learn to let go
Wracked with ecstasy on your final day
Surrendering your every thieved mote
Every speck the womb snagged from space
Endless potentials collapse
As your arc finds its true form
Your entirety archived in motion
Your borrowed shape never truly gone
Sempiternal, perfected
Forever, your shadow lingers on
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Scarcity New York, New York
Experimental black metal from NYC; meditations on loss and endurance.
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