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Is this the end of unknown friends?

A turmoil so wretched through a wanton maze

Breaking past the haze of death and life

On through to the other side of whatever waits

Beauty stained and scarred

The passing of a righteous way

Cold in lust and warm in the earth

Cascading heaven drips away

Secrets shunned and then are hidden

To claim a frozen plain

Take the soft hardship

And glimmer into the fade

What light can rebound beyond an invisible gate?

What shade can be cast in the absence of day?

Danse to the west as the north creeps

Reflect to the east as the south weeps

Follow me to the realm of nothing

Take my hand as a strangers care

To a land desperate of enduring pain

In the nights we die, this is the end