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new breath

like smoke

rises through me

ascending

return to form

an altar of silence

before a face of stone.

remember yourself

remember

let no one else accept this fate.

my eyes are emptied of grace

look at me.

tears of loss stain my cheeks

tears of love without belief

grant me this vision

released from time

in the waning light

release me

from the dream defiled

from the self denied

no instinct greater than this

escape

brought to my knees again

I speak the words

that call me back to life.