will you come?
and grieve with me in the moonlight
mourn life that is fleeting in the bright night
for i am a shadow of the world
a decaying source of life
bound by lack of dimension

will you go?
and leave me here before the sunrise
where i can await a painless demise
for i am only an empty space to be repleted
a husk of something that truly is
what i can never be

and will you return?
over again each time i am revived
blessing me with you truthful eyes
for so long have i been a prisoner
to the wicked and contriving minds
of those who breathe hunger
and exhale lies

so, you see
as a victim of gilded oppression
and sickened orderly obsessions
the true question i reveal in confession

will you flee and take me with you?

and when the world is swallowed
in the shadow of my wings
may i find calm and solace
in the oneness it brings
purely desecrated
in my blissful way of thinking
mind has crumbled
and essence extrapolated

all i am
all that is
all this mind
will ever give
just this once
i cant give in
beckoned onward
to the end

and when the dawn is emptied
into cold and bleeding hands
may light be darkened
in the weight of my command
like ever grasping arms
of darkness that began
first and final song
has sunken in the sand

if only you could
hear me

all i am
all that is
all this life
can ever give
all this life
i have to live
just may skip
right to the end

a timeless serpent
carves its name into the land
without purpose
without conscience
a timeless serpent
of unending perception
proceeds in undiscerned direction
churning with the bitter momentum of wisdom

a single path
dares to defy
uncalculated choice
and infinite balance
a single path
weathers vaporous contempt
and its precipitates
descending to concatenate
stark, shocking knowledge
and ignorant, senseless entities

my mind grasps for words
floating on the wind

thoughts come and go
like great indifferent clouds
ignorant to
the insignificant miasma
roiling in the petri dish
below

temptation and trepidation
volition and admonition
regretful countenances
conduct the vessel
while gently noted
by something beneath

there i was
standing on the edge
of the earth
rolling away from  the sun

frozen in the doorway
of a dream
with twilight
pouring over me

flood waters churning
dust and mud
tumbling through
the dessicated planes

carrying life away
as quickly as it came

feathered shadows
ripple like the water
in the wind
on which they're cast

miniscule
molten metal
droplet beetles
dive beneath
the shimmering water

bathed in
metamorphic waves
of bending light

inobservably tiny legs
quickening
in a graceful fury

sliding through the world
like slow-motion lightning

or a brilliant spark
unnoticeably extricated
from its source

your ossuary stands
on the most prominent
of vivisected stems
the hem of intersected threads
the stead of temporary dreads

it is the contact between
the fruits of all your deeds
and the lives you've lead unseen
a riddle in the dreams you've left
beneath
below what ego buries deep

its verisimilitude in a lie
an exemplary visage
of the ties that bind
this place that we call
Setenance