I drank the void of the self
I fed my soul to its fire
Off the shore of ashes
To sail with ghosts
I didn’t recognize
My reflection
In their eyes
Just a figure
formed from clouds of ash
Slowly fading
In the night, far away
In the forest dark
The senses awaken
I hear the whisper of
A cold wind
And the falling leaves
Crackling like existence
Rebirth in neurogenesis
Spreading like fractals
Written in the ice
In the boreal
Splitting symmetry
In four dimensions
Fighting against
The deliquesce of self
Into the encircling
Ocean black
I gaze into the black
All alone
A faceless beast
Slowly silhouetting
Unconscious
Its awakening eyes like torches
Gazing back
Into me
credits
from The Dark Roads,
released March 14, 2014
Jeremiah Savage
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