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Long overdue, as my timeline expires

I breathe my final whisper

Awake in a maelstrom that ripped me from life, a life no longer mine

Transported to the gateways of pitch, the cascades of Dis Pater

Ghosts of children and the lives unclaimed, citizens of the departed

I walk through the halls, a vast unending pantheon of permanent lunar shade

My shepherd appears, known to all by many names:

Orcus, Yama, Anubis, Mors

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Lost to the world

Lost to apathy

I cross the Onyx Void

Twilight God of death

Will you reach for me?

I delve into your embrace

Flatline mother

I take your hand

Allow me to walk in solace

Release from this vessel

These bone-flesh chains

I'm ready to tread the path

Give me the answers, the knowledge gained

From a lifetime embattled with hardships

The ones that I've lost, the ones I have left

I carry the guilt no more

Peace at last, free to walk amongst the dead in unobstructed silence

My shepherd appears, known to all by many names:

Mania, Erebus, Gangnim Doryeong

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The past far gone

Escape the astral plane, a spirit jettisoned into the axiom of relief and tranquil gloom

To be no more

I relinquish life, into the black of night, my transformation birth into a harbinger of death

I drape my hands upon the scythe and sorrow swallows me - Death is but a final journey

And so I remain, a shepherd of the slain -Death is but a final journey

And my death completes

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I delve in your embrace