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There is a moment when you realize what the pain has made of you. In hiding, curled in on yourself, unable to show the world your face. Acting on instinct, lashing out, even at those closest to you.
Time has passed, and time is a thief. It has stolen your memories; the agony has faded but so has every precious moment of joy. You have been hollowed out from the inside, and thereโs nothing left of the person you used to be. But you try, you try to remember how to smile. You try to remember how to laugh.
And one day you crawl out from your hiding place and step back into the world. And then, every day, you do what you must to survive.
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The inevitable rot of pain
Festering beneath her eyes
A forced smile, forcing a laugh
A little piece of her falls away
And all our pain inextricably linked
To a thread of suffering without end
Beyond the sands an empire dies
Beyond the sands madness infests
An empire hears her cries beyond the stars
Beyond the sand her tears salt their tongue
Drawn in by the scent of her wounds
Whispering to her, reality slips away
Cooing in their ears with sweet-scented words
Promising relief she knows cannot be true
A hand across her belly, reassuring
Exhausted by the weight of intimate pain
Burdened by a loss felt across the stars
To be vulnerable is a luxury
They mistake for weakness
Like countless women who came before her
The choices she makes are cruelly unfair
And yet she will make it
Because no one else will
The inevitable rot of pain
Festering beneath her eyes
A forced smile, forcing a laugh
A little piece of her falls away
All our pain inextricably linked
Towering agony in ruinous fields
Beyond the sands an empire dies
Beyond the sands a cruel and quiet sacrifice
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The future sits just off the coast
A glaring flash of light
Waves that had been consuming our shore
Now ease back gently into the sea
A crowd stands enrapt and unable to turn away
How hard it must be to deny hope
But I canโt help myselfโI must look away
To the snow which first hid our glimmer
A futureโs been set in strange new alloys
Set into bodies floating in the sky
Parts moving forwards; parts moving back
That wish to ensure our fate
A frail soul, like the world, destined to end too soon
A calamitous lack of providence
Tears run on both sides of time
I shared the frail body and we shared the world
I shared the weight of the worldโs surrender
Bore burdens across time and mind
A futureโs been set in strange new alloys
Set into bodies in the sky
Great minds that thought much too alike
Now wish to ensure our fate
A soul made frail by the world
A soul made frail by the cold
With so little time, left alone
They gave warmth to the world
All our pain inextricably linked
Threaded together and woven fine
A futureโs been changed beneath the snow
Set into frozen hands clinging to hope
Young hands who gave up too much too soon
For a world that could not give them warmth
A futureโs been changed beneath the snow
A cruel and quiet sacrifice
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My Perfect Red, in tooth and claw
How you grow so unlike yourself
Into every vine I once defended
Into places I leave now unprotected
Unburned letters and words in aftertaste
Uncertain with the quivering of my pen
I am weak with your words
Lovingly exhausted with our thoughts
My most Insidious Blue
How you seep from the branches of time
Crystalline into every thread
Weaving insideโa wanting braid
My Careful Cardinalโto be so close
With our knives at our necks
A line of red into the hollow of my throat
Is still to be so close to you
Dearest Lapis, eager with hunger
Unburned letters and words in aftertaste
Uncertain with the quivering of my lips
What words of yours linger unwritten
My Red Sky at morningโs dawn
Do not shorten your words to me
I am weak with your words
Lovingly exhausted with our thoughts
Dear Red
I leave myself undefended
Dear Blue
I leave myself unprotected
I leave myself for you
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To Heal the World
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Ravenous hunger, unsatiated needs
A plague of man to consume all things
The earth stripped clean, bare and desolate
Secrets slumbering
Born from the womb of the mountain
In deep secrets of the earth
From soil tilled with metal and rock
A seed from the Old Ones
Raised in the shadows of death
In the loom of euthanized silhouettes
A world forced to surrender too soon
History repeats, an echo from the stone
Footsteps treading on the rocks of forbidden grounds
Widened eyes see things that were never really meant to be seen
Ghostly words they linger here, theyโre dripping from the dark
Speaking of small tragedies and little loves
And they must know what it is
This yearning they were born with
A connection to know what made them
To know if they had purpose
To know what made them unwanted
What led them to be abandoned
A lifetime of scorn
That will be answered for
Alone with the night
Alone with the fire
Small solitudes still comfort
In their world apart
But truth lies much deeper than blood
So much more than just their skin
The swansong of a world in the rock
Last words on the cusp of clouds
Daughter of the mountain
Twisted arms snake from the earth
Hiding a hoard of unkempt truths
A grave of metal and rust
The mountains hide where makers end
Hides the sins of selfish men
A circle of death kept from the world
Buried deeds lost to the sky
The sky spoke with the mountainโs voice
To woman born of mountainโs womb
Secrets of blood, soil, and metal
Of futures made of lifeless fields
The sun descends from the sky
To scorch earth, metal, and man
The daughter of the mountain
Unyielding to even a star
Death throes in the waves of an ocean
Buried in graves set in the light of stars
The mountainโs body remains
Left to the soil she defended
Unfounded and unpraised
A long earned rest
Her voice still echoes in the world
Through metal, rock, and rust
Mourn only so long her death
Warmth found in the strength of her will
Nestled in the overgrowth of her home
Caressed by the soil she saved
Eyes shut against the light sheโs kept
The earth in her hands
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Progressive death/doom with a touch of synths and a flair for the queer SFF media out there. No AI was used or ever will be used on these albums
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