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stone vault / stone cold / short of breath

drilling the firmament

with spyglass straining their eyes to any purpose or meaning

seeking kindness in darkness

purpose in violence / celestial under the eyelid

in the cold stone firmament

lids are starless as if dead or shy

sleeping masks from pieces of marbles

lids are starless, sentence falls on the earth

and the words are final

answers are silent, flesh becomes the word

and the word lives among us

words are final

sentence falls on the earth