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Solitary redeemer

Better unlimited, astray

An ideology of eternally turning away

Finally, you and I occupied the Ascension Foundry

A trilateral matrix: you; me; the ether

The cold air burned our lungs

You: ever loquacious; and miserably so

The hubris of limitlessness

The bête noire of yourself and I

Manna from limbo

My well-earned contempt

As you read once again from your smeared palimpsest

Culminating thus:

A welcome severance

Cast from the featureless peak

Falling through clouds

You passed monochrome inverted megaliths

Extending incomprehensibly downwards

And then I occupied the Ascension Foundry

In those lonely moments

Nursing a fine depressant

The fundament of subjectivity

I surveyed my world