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what is this place of nothingness?

am I caught in the afterlife?

is my soul trapped in hell?

why am I still conscious?

are my eyes open, is there nothing there?

where am I? don't know what's happening

where is the rest of me?

I'm alive with a sense of being

like an eternal consciousness

awake in pitch-black loneliness

why do I deserve this hell?

hell, hell, trapped in hell

alone, nothing but consciousness

an essence in emptiness

alone, alive, consciousness, emptiness

can't leave here, there's no place left to go

(chapter 4 was written but never recorded or released. or exists in an alternate reality lol. but chapter 5 builds from it and references it somewhat.)