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Watch, now feel grief dance and flicker

A beacon on the black pacific

expanse that bridges to the dead and gone

and past and done

and on and on

It swallows whole

the lightness and vibrance

Heirophant violent

Violet Crown upon his head

The ground now silence

Winds die down

We saw the waters seize the town

Sighed for every island drowned

The side of each that is the crowd

capsized and breached the vessel proud

And we become unknown to us

Ennui beckons a home for us

We seek and seed forgetfulness

on ceaseless seas of errant dust

Here I stand before the nightbridge

Rising stone to midnight sky and

here ancestral vestiges they lie

Far beyond you and I and

Now this essence

Now this question

Soul of every question itself

Here I stand before the nightbridge

Here I leave behind this shell

Sleep now for no tomorrow

Wish now for days no more

Sigh back to blurry vision

Time lost on darkened shores

So goes this darkness, this fever partner

So goes this nightmare, this blood regret

So goes this harvest of time's dominion

I'll break this silence yet

Shame

Dust, and errant flicker

Hateful sign, nor guileful lie

Hide us in the black pacific

Hide us to the all seeing eye

Grown and gestated

Our love and hate take flight

We say goodbye

To gods and lovers

To dogs and mothers in the sky

I am become a darkener of doorways

My name now cast into the fields

of the unuttered

I drink again

of what it is to lose completely

The water of regret

Forgot not this sinking