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Only Oblivion
08:21
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To capture the feeling
To call back another time
So fleeting
The moment I was trapped inside
Lost
Drifting through an endless void
No whispered wisdom
Only oblivion
I feel my heartbeat
This vessel carries life
Forsake
The body and the mind
No whispered wisdom
Only oblivion
And in an instant of solitude,
Where the silence stretched forever,
One breath became countless,
And the transient thoughts of a thousand moments
Came to pass
This moment of silence
This moment of stillness
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Approaching Death
05:18
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Approaching the fall
Grasping fear
We passed beneath our former selves
Kneeled over, in tears
In tears
That tense, wrought grip brought this end
Absconding the inevitable
Tilling our sin
Cast in darkness, reveal; begin, begin!
Fading away through the mists of dawn
Drawn to light
We passed above our former selves
Whole-bodied, endeared
Beyond realms of terror
Define this unveiling
Unto nothingness succumb
Flailing in endless night
My end is my own,
I am allowed to exist
The ghosts of my being
In suffering, they persist
Thus advent Death,
Gladly, I languish here
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Condemned by Night
09:20
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Placed upon this expanse
Between the banks of the spirit's kind
The water flows freely here
But not in our time
The erosion painted lens of mind
Is feigning beyond the trees
The fire burns intensely here
Set us ablaze, set us free
An estuary upon this soul laid to bare
In infinite horizons
The torment of escaping
Setting sight on this faint meaning
Currents racing
The Watcher's eye
Gazing lightly
Condemned by night
Feeling again,
Fleeing again
Flooding
A collective essence
The universe a mold
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Cloistered
05:34
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Upon broken earth
Unmoored from reality
The underbelly of consciousness
Memory as continent
A landmass of thought
A forest in the mind’s eye
Home of the Heartwood
Veins grow like trees
Anhedonia
Plains of the spirit
Rain of marrow
Cloistered upon the hidden garden
Look within to receive
What you offer to yourself
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A quake to waken the brimstone cavern
From ashes beneath they stir
Rising embers to burn within
A society in fiery splinters
Soil torn; Heartgloom born
Bestowing this burden
The severed ties of dissolved minds
Lifting us into nothingness
Heartwood into ash again
Hope deferred into ash again
Against the waning light
Against impossible fright
Heartwood into ash again
Hope deferred into ash again
Basking in our fray
This essence cast apart
Uninhabited, unearthed,
Blight of sight and mind
A whole unto this fractured self
Mended grain, mended mind
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6. |
To Ride Upon the Plains
08:57
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Rays of golden sun
Reach across the azure sky
Touch the reaches of the hills
Shine with glory as we ride
Hold the fire in your hands
Ancestral winds at your back
Elemental primal force
Prevail over Kanza lands
To pass on through generations
Weapons against tyranny;
Tyranny
Ascending truths
They are taught
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Marsh of Swans
Atmospheric/melodic black metal from Aurora, CO and Lawrence, KS. Inspired by local history and influences within and beyond the genre.
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