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V:

Trembling from paradigm shifts

Unknowable pain

Mind contorting: exploding stars

A panicked heart: erupting seas

Breaking the surface of the water

This liquid enveloping my identity

Desperately inhale for air

A vortex that consumed worlds

Steady my mind and prepare, prepare for the onslaught

As my nervous system attunes itself to this violent universe

Steady my mind and prepare, prepare for the pain

A passionate lamentation - The genocide of culture

All I wish for is my blindness

I can never open my eyes

The intimate truth of existence

Unveil its true features to me

Weeping with closed eyes

This sound alone shatters my soul

Forcing my body into the fetal form

I breakdown with the agony

Steady my mind and prepare, prepare for the onslaught

As my nervous system attunes itself to this violent universe

Steady my mind and prepare, prepare for the pain

A passionate lamentation - The genocide of culture

I scream and I scream

Louder and louder

Forcing my lungs

To cry a crescendo

To block out the noise

To block out the pain

I desperately crave

I desperately need

To know the sweet release of death

To be granted the choice to die

But it's too selfish of me

To ask – in these times – such luxuries

Releasing my hands – the veil of my sight

Blood dripping from where I dug into skin

I peer into everything and nothing all at once

Accept the pain of my approaching sins

There was a singular moment I recall

A vanishing weight from deep within

When something inside me, something inside fell asleep

And something else unknown woke up