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Within my dreams I am named Kuranes

Four decades numbed by the poison of life

I leave this hideous reality behind

Return to ancestral home

Old village asleep or dead

Traverse to abyssal cliffs

Unechoeing emptiness

I stand again before the city I’ve lost

So long ago still timeless and unchanging

Torn from my dream

Into the bitterness of waking life

Can’t stay afloat

Alone within this septic sea of billions

I must find it, Celephaïs

A desperate search every night

Through infinite dreamscapes

Inhale hasheesh smoke

To prolong my slumber

I walk through fields of grey where ancient battles raged

Now desolate

Faced the high priest from his spell released

Innocents

Conversed with gaseous beings formless, ageless things

Beyond infinity

The valley of Ooth-Nargai

To where my spirit cries

Increase the dose

The dregs are all that’s left of my life

Thrown to the streets

I stumble half-awake to the cliffs

Open my eyes

Retinues of knights beseech me

Make me a god

To reign over my creation

My mangled corpse forgotten, I live on in my dreams