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The weight of impending death hangs heavily upon you

Casting a shadow upon an empty life

Enduring in inertia

Enslaved by the chains of faith

Constrained by the divine word

Existing rather than alive

In a constant state of ignorant bliss

The weight of impending death hangs heavily upon you

Confidence in your beliefs is shaken to the very core

Two hands turned to labor achieve more than a thousand clasped in prayer

The natural order bestows neither reward nor sanction

Only consequence for actions

Only the desperate will crawl upon his knees into his own grave

In search of hope

In fear you offer empty platitudes of atonement

To quell the gnawing guilt

Supplication to your God above

Empty words of prayer are met with the silence of the void

In a desperate search for absolution

The comfort of superstition dissolves

In the light of a dark dawning

Holy deception

There is no heaven

Darkness claims your eyes

As you draw your final breath

Extinguished from all existence

You simply cease to be