In the shadow of defamation, the unforgivable lie, hidden inside Giving breath to the flames, a curse out of will, burning all that bears your name, only ashes remain Fabrication reversed, return to the earth, in solitude was an unmatched power given birth Spreading these wings, deflecting deceit, laughing in the wake of fate This conviction will not wane, fly away The cycle complete, the theft and the gift Wounds wisened through time, and the blink of the eye Deeds performed in the light, truth instilled, instincted Connecting the circle, embracing the whole To rest in the narrows, there is no time A moment unownable, knowable only in truth and in lies From the dark into the light The vantage point where vision dies Shunning the comforting blanket of night True motives manifest when the sun appears An ocean of doubt, the sediment deep Yet a treasure awaits all who navigate fear Our nature concealed as we held to ideals A sovereignty gives wings, and the Will shall not wane Who are your arbiters of truth To whom does your proxy belong You are not destined to remember The hand of mortality, it tightens Predilection of sin, it permeates The curse of obligation, it punctuates Screaming for an exit from abbreviated realities Tongues unleashed with baited, heaving breaths We are reduced, we are diminished Clearly unfinished, we've gone before Open doors and metaphors, open sores and wars before A fighting side, a soul-diers pride, we've been to war You must remember, you are wired to forget Progeny of the snake, dualistic and rent The veil top to bottom, one into two Rendered lamenting, yearning for the before That moment that gifts you, humanity's purview Beyond the between of response and stimuli Don't you know what you are? A contradiction of intent, lament the self you project We forgot the past and could not hide And why can't we see through these lies? Within the echoes and ghosts trapped in stone Forever chasing us through time A lesson, we learned a truth we'll forget When the cycle completes, and the nightmare repeats In the fullness of silence, and the lonliness of noise An act of creation, the only clear way If it all disappeared today, the spark would remain Existence would march onward, and sorrow would wane What have we become now, from one into two, torn O quiet soul, let the knowing take hold, be still with resolve Now devour in time, at the gate time is frozen, o quiet soul

Meandering, frozen in time Wandering, into a sacred land where silence lies Yearning, for a treasure found Beyond the illusory Trapped within the imagination A slave to unloved lives A noise which never dies Grasping for moments which halt the decay A knowing of histories, failures, and victories Desperate for love without slipping away Grinding and toiling, maintain hope for epiphanies Dark and alone, she floats through the droves Beauty in mystery, in dreams foretold Hover around you always Movements bring music, brings the light of day Waves wash over freely, this fog will carry me away Stirring the poison stream, carries the ego to environs foreseen