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Blinding light

Overtakes me

Surging in this aching ecstacy

Overwhelmed

Overstimulated

Pleasure turns to searing, sharpened pain

A moment of clarity

In this dull, black and white vision

Light calls, beckoning

From this tomb of sullen misery

The sky is on fire

Setting alight these pale remains

No rite, no pyre

Only smoke that guides the way

To red skies above

To the endless horizon

The blazing sun takes me

In its scorching, glowing arms

No soul to witness

The collapse of the body

The release of the soul

A burnt desolation

Insignificant

In the ever-burning sky

A cloud of despair

And bitter reminiscence