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Born – baptized in salt and sap

Snared – a hallowed skein of stars

Awakened – the halcyon dream dissolves

Forgotten – the void in silence calls

Comatose – a divine state

Ink and spear procreate

Frosted serif – hide crimes past

Opal illusion – in re-flec-tions of the ash

Decrepit Slave to blind overlord

Rapture traced in arcane rime.

Natural order catechized

Prostrate in static longing

By thy grace our pallor regained

“Nigh or now” – the truth’s the same

Sedating all with yellow grin

Crowned in knowledge – but forever robed in sin

I, on the precipice

Take a step in stagnate haze

Loosen my constricting grip

And cracked seeds fall from my fingers

Feed – pick bones clean

Silent ascension with body serene

Twisted locks and meal-ground teeth

Eternal unrest in a withered nest

Wisdom wanes with waxing pride

He falls from sense to conceit

Decrepit Slave to blind overlord

Rapture traced in arcane rime.