Transmigration

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The Perfection of the Soul. The Corruption of the Senses.

I walk a thousand halls of darkened glass;
Reflections haunt my every turn unseen.
The light engulfs this manse of mirrored sheen,
Yet only mem’ry holds its golden mass.
No opened window doth my eyes harass,
Nor gleam astray hath broken black serene
For forty years of night, grown evergreen,
With polished cryst my sky, my fields of grass.
I seek the door that leads outside to sun,
That opened will suffuse this prison through,
And all the structure made its self more sure.
Oh! Will I fly, or back inside to run
Through corridors restored to proper hue?
How many thousand steps left to endure?

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I seek the sacred fire
That hides behind the night,
The darkness desecrated
By these thousand points of light.
The outer mystery
Calling me to leave

From this prison
Of time and space;
What is only shadows?
What is fate?
To free your mind
You must eliminate
The accidental!

Sleeping inside
The void which binds:
The heart which knows
Limitless mind.

Is there a way?
Can it be known?
By mortal souls?
Or only pain?

Which way?
Unnumbered paths diverge;
There is no voice that gives me counsel
That is not my own.
Oh flame!
Through the illusion of the chaos there is one!

Of countless worlds,
In countless universes,
What is there that's finally real?
And if I saw myself
Make another choice,
Would that finally mean I'm free

From this prison
Of time and space?
What is only shadows?
What is fate?
To free your mind
You must eliminate
The accidental!

Still we must seek,
Future unseen,
Possible worlds
We bring to be.

Weary these bones!
Aching these eyes!
Thirsting for light;
Lost in shadow.

We seek the endless;
We are not meat computers,
Yet still these finite bounds endure!

My own consciousness,
This thorn I cannot remove,
For all my paths are choked with thorns!

I long
To feel
The glow.
I can
Not make
It so.

A crystal palace
That mirrors only darkness,
All knowledge of the known destroyed!

This soul an infant,
This labyrinthine structure
Keeps me trapped here within the void!

This maze of shadows,
It holds no history;
It holds no memory
Of anything at all.
There is a light;
There is a fire,
But I am trapped within
These infinite walls!

Escape!
A way out from this madness!
The silence desecrates
The noise that I have known before.
Which way?
Unnumbered paths diverging,
My fate to walk them all
Until I find the final door.

What will resolve?
What will dissolve?
Will I survive?
Will I evolve?

Questions all flee:
The antiphon
Beckons me on.
Finally I'm free!

From this prison
Of time and space;
What is only shadows?
What is fate?
To free your mind
You must eliminate
Everything that stops
The only way to

This destination
Beyond all things,
Where all is light,
And shadows fade away.
Complete negation
Ensures what remains
Is the universal!

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from Perfection/Corruption, released February 18, 2019

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