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Offering

Incinerate the self within

Cremate the heart and all confines

Immolate the shifting veils

Contemplate upon the remains

Sacrificial ritual

The blood must speak

The flesh must pray

Pray, swathed in ashes

Awaken to the sun of the self

Set aflame to enter bliss

Conquer the remains

Born of time and hence devoured

By which creates and thus destroys

Turn towards what terrifies

Embrace, sacrifice

Forgotten and remembered by

That which destroys time

That which is time

And the night of eternity

Purify

Permeated by the presence

Of dark formlessness itself

Amidst the roaring flames

In billowing clouds of ash

Human life and mortal dreams

As futile as sparks

Fading in the fires

Of perpetual cremation

The funeral pyre

A column of flame

Illuminate the consecrated ground

Of death and ash

Shattered by deafening laughter