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Deep at the seat of thoughts

At the heart of life

At the birth of sight and significance

Reigns the empire of loss

With its coat of dust drowning memories and skills in a glance

When, at the dawn of night

Suspicions arise

Ripples fill the mind and the sky

When through the shards of light

Seeps the blood of time, the descent through the void of denial

Within our veins beats a world in peril

As our breath slows down sketches race around

designed to fade

In a whirlwind time ravages, seals our fate

A paradox

As we get the sense of all these steps on Earth

Decay begins

In our cells the clock keeping pace, starts the chase

Long I have trod on the shores of this ocean of light

Wishing for moments to turn into stillness and grace

Old age has claimed my strength, my freedom and left me to fight

Growing gaps of silence, a void crawling into the space

Where is the soul

when they leave

when they part

with their shell

And come back in a

moment of brief and hopeful sight

May it be far

From our fears

From the sound of our tears

In a river of wisdom and peace

I am lost to the world

Chained to the past

Leaving behind a body of glass

I am bound for the west yet

Tied to the east shore

Present in body but in soul no more

In the warmth of the sun

There I will dwell

Far away from their grief, from the darkness of my cell

I forgot all their names

Caused so much pain

I find my peace in the memories again

Memories of a long lost day

Never prepared for the loss of senses

Facing demise with incapacity

Chasing the thoughts

Watching us fall and suddenly slip away

Hopeless attempts

Short term memory down but covering the wreck

We’re wandering

The power to think, the power to reason gone

Episodes of clarity, I venture into lucidity

Stranded in a concrete sea I wake up alone on the way

Emptiness is spreading, and feeding my fragility

Slave to the present, the puzzle, alas I betray