Radiative winds evoke a subitive awakening The red observer greets me on a crystalline mat of erosion Bewildered - I stand here alone As an absolute sense of timelessness overcomes me gazing far and wide across the bleak, lifeless, crimson horizon up ahead I am witness to the final chapter of epochs of degeneracy - A prologue to oblivion… These plains once held vigour and beauty Now nothing more but mere sand and dust Green elysian fields that so once bloomed have befallen with perpetual gloom The flower that once blossomed Is now wilted, dried, dead Taken like dust in the wind The writhing of the tectonics ceased so long ago Reconciled to be eaten by a starving sun With tearful eyes I look up towards a shattered sky A gaping, bleeding, cosmic maw Colours incomprehensible flashing by Cruel universal indifference Exist still to contemplate ‘why?’ Why? Trapped in an arid current of hurt and despair Involuntary solitude Descending through the dreadful maelstrom of loneliness In silence - suffering Drifting in ethereal anguish There is no semblance - No remembrance of vitality Only the dawning reality of fickle impermanence With the reality of fickle impermanence I roam these dunes These dunes which stretch lonesome These dunes stretch lonesome Cruel universal indifference Exist still to contemplate ‘why?’ Immerse yourself into the age of oblivion (Drowning in gold) Cycles of cold, black stillness - perennial (Reminisce of the green of old) Recurrent throughout the vast universe (Significant echoes) The scale's tipped back into balance (To which I hold on to) Find peace in annihilation (Diverse delirium) To return into infinity tranquil (Purposeful presence) No need to dread the inevitable (Whilst fleeting, the dream persists) Surrender to harmonic equilibrium (And I exalt, exonerate exuberant excellence) So I still wander These desolate sands in search of a sign of life A breath, a heartbeat will even suffice this seemingly futile voyage destined for naught Deserted all hope An effigy of civilizations long gone Proclaims this lost world of ABSENCE ABSENCE ABSENCE ABSENCE WITHIN DESOLATE SANDS