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A clock chiming

The mournful peal

Scores of hours

Bleed ever away

Frozen with fear

Hope's toxic sting

Faith's dying light

And sanity betrayed

Time's weary rot

Corroding resolve

Hope infests the calm

Of purgatorial silence

Uncertainty grows

Eternities in moments

Cancer to the soul

The helpless in lament

Time's weary rot

Corroding resolve

Hope infests the calm

Of purgatorial silence

Paralysis of inaction

Eternity of a moment

Abyssal majesty

The obsidian tide

Consumes him whole

Consigned to the depths

Cast unto eternity

A watcher waits

Upon tortured shore

A reunion denied

Never to return