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In the year of the storms

I walk through shadows

My face painted with ashes

Marks carved deep in my heart

Through darkness walk the unfortunate

I ask the stars their secrets

And again this night they are silent

The die is cast from beyond

From the eternal - hence these tears

What is truth?

Stone

Wind

Sand

Fate

I come to this place alone to visit an old pain

To contemplate

My respite, my solitude

In the moonlight, the mist curls about my being

And beckons the darkness

He whom the gods love die young

Death is certain - its hour uncertain

Remember that you will die

Thus you shall go to the stars

Philosophy and prophecy

Angels weep and demons laugh

Runes and ruins - this pagan opera

Ripples in the water

I came upon memories

From the day beauty died

Flame and embers

In a careless rain