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Veils lift and vessels crack

When power is an absolute

All is singular among the ocean

Universally approved

I am

You are

All is

Within the glass

Deep fragile hope brims each vessel

All contents molecular and set

Each iteration of iteration

Beset by tragic fate

All at once was the flood

The point of collapse

The slow death of an empire, waltzing

The point of collapse

Spiralling towards the sewer

The point of collapse

The slow death of an empire, waltzing

Spiralling towards the sewer

I am

You are

All is

Within the glass

Every marker met every other and all was rearranged

Yet nothing was destroyed

And there was nothing gained

The ocean sleeps full again

Permanence in either state

Unwilling rats

Unknowing of their stench

Unwilling rats

Unknowing of their stench

Unwilling rats

Unknowing of their stench

Unwilling rats

Unknowing of their stench

Perfect

Spiralling towards the sewer

The point of collapse

The slow death of an empire, waltzing

The point of collapse

Spiralling towards the sewer

Perfect.