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Dear Captain, brave Captain Can you feel the ship descend? The stars themselves left us behind In treacherous waters, where we find The rocks foment our end As we slip below the waves Captain, may I reminisce? The firmament was suffused with light We had no cause to dread the night Nor oceanic abyss What of Sol and Luna fair? Finer climes to shine have they Not austere, but auspicious, fulfilling Where their rays could be instilling Growth and not decay Your vision sharp, your hands deft But you could not foresee The guiding spheres departing thus With warmth and light in their truss Chill Death our fate to be Vast blackness now enfolds L

The love they never shared It excruciates the mind Of this transient tenant, spared The fellowship of his kind Adhering to the notion That his fortitude be of worth That his agony will set in motion The alchemy of his rebirth Yet knowing vacancy ever nears For if the flame should wane It will not blaze again, he fears Upon his cold, caliginous plane He keeps it fervent, incites inferno More fuel, more wood to keep Lest warmth succumbs, and to his woe His Spirit to the aphotic deep

Tattered rags shroud my body Tattered hopes shroud my mind Hyperborean winds bite The chill air freezes I stand alone in the night Cracks mar my person Cracks in the mirror Standing before me Yet it is not my reflection But she, so like me, familiar Fleeting glimpses of the Sun Behind the clouds, in the mirror Diffused, grey, dream-like light Emanating from the glass This portal to solace I gaze upon her visage A sense of wealth, warmth I reach out to touch To grasp, to hold But I am repelled, denied She smiles, the mirror shatters The shards rend my body Blood profulent, I collapse My last mortal sight her face Conjur

My soul does find itself alone 'Midst thoughts of Life denied. Your presence it seems To silence the groan Of the cold tombs I have pried. What art thou, O radiant one Who banish'd the funereal gale? Not of this Plane, For such as the Sun, Your beauty would render pale. The space is paltry, time is naught; For your embrace I'd conquer Death. Though hesitant still; These old wounds have taught I should not grant hope the Breath.

Acrimony, anathema To empathy, humanity Engulfed, emphatic I shudder and revile These words I utter They were not discerned Perhaps I scarcely fathomed The consequences of exile I courted not reflection Fearful of the portent Pitiless it came, still I found it was a mire Noxious was such consciousness A moldering cesspool of existence Amidst the stench came elucidation The Void my ardent desire

Flesh and flame Antithesis, synthesis It burns not Cleansing, convergence Radiance of the Absolute The vessel is naught This world is hollow Illusory, diaphanous Cast off as a garment As the chains of the physical Exposure of the infinite Eternity laid bare Boundless, formless, timeless Fertile womb of Kali Mahāpralaya – Bhavatārini Audient void of endless Embrace my essence Creation through destruction Rebirth through death Hic est draco caudam suam devorans

Solitude weaves its spell Thoughts drift, darkness descends It seems to grant them form Memories, cold yesterdays Chill ghosts of things lost Entropic spectres with hollow eyes They tempt with fragile images Dissipated with the slightest motion Clarity dawns and the illusions fade Existence, a fleeting fallacy Mundane matter, prison of flesh Stifles the luminosity within Binds the energy contained therein I pray for the final reaping Holy Death, I await thy flame Let it burn away this shell May it guide me yonder, onward Let me see the secrets clear Starless night, infinite seas And the havens beyond, they call

Wings raw and bleeding Beating at a prison without bars Free to go, but doomed to return These surroundings mock me Mirthful derision at my cries Stagnation and decay abound Awaits without, awaits within Polluted, congested, false existence Escape is paramount, or I become Another victim, consumed These walls of paper and ash Better than steel in their purpose At keeping me from fresh air From rising above, from rebirth The phoenix left to asphyxiate Distance, distance, damn'd distance Lashing at my heart and spirit Days pass by, I feel the sting Of kinship glimpsed, but out of reach Flung across the vast expanse Alone among the dregs I a