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Deep within this threadbare skin

The scrapes of emptiness

A realm for kings of lesser things

A dream in full regress

I let go

I'm falling in the dark

And no one knows

The monarch's deeper shade of black

I let go

Now I'm falling

Let me go

No one knows the monarch's shade

The deeper shade of black

Scant possessions hear confessions

Whispered on and on

Inside the words, fragmented worlds

So much does not belong

Enthralled by the boredom left unsaid

The constant others in my head

They mass in numbers to watch as I let go

But no one knows

Which way your dark waters flow

How they stripped me of my soul

And I let go

Now I'm falling

Let me go

No one knows the monarch's shade

My deeper shade of black

I'm now a ghost, I'm fading

Eclipsed from everywhere

My only fragile trace, a single ripple through the air

As stranger worlds fold over me

And night is coming bare

The monarch's wings I'm under softly whisper everywhere