Beyond the curtain the projection fades Eternally traveling changing shades Gleaming light flickers forming our realities In the nucleus of darkness our thoughts scream At the moment light is extinguished where will we be Losing our illumination in the end we are free Melting faces blister, boil and drip Sloughing skin reforms and shifts A mangled projection as the curtain rips Seeing the perverted veil the candle eclipsed Projecting existence upon a unstable screen Wavering images through a lucid dream Unreal forecast of a world unknown unseen The projector a shadowed existential being Once a mirror the lake becomes an illusory sight Reflections once perfect feel torrid a visual blight Motionless waters malformed by a skipping stone Dementia twists reality creating the unknown Projecting existence upon a unstable screen Wavering images through a lucid dream Unreal forecast of a world unknown unseen The projector a shadowed existential being Beyond the curtain the projection fades Eternally traveling changing shades Pyroclastic images rise and fall Shimmering mirages beckon and call What is seen a refraction of light Behind the curtain is the endless night Melting faces blister, boil and drip Sloughing skin reforms and shifts A mangled projection as the curtain rips Seeing the perverted veil an apocalypse Projecting existence upon a unstable screen Wavering images through a lucid dream Unreal forecast of a world unknown unseen The projector a shadowed existential being