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Bathed in oneness
The source of consciousness projects outward
Billions of tiny fragments
Onto a concrete coated, blue dot
Sporadically, pristinely scattered with moss
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The collective cyclically become synonymous with the concrete - colourless, li(f)eless
Though change is blossoming
The messengers are here
May earth shed its skin
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2. |
The Discolouration
11:11
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I remember their wires infesting my veins
The colo(u)rs of my joy being bled
Every drop strained, staining the unclean hands of authority
The same hands who built this suffocating, illusory cell
The transmitted weight still erodes my core
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Though still there flickers a sensation of something profound
Lying deep within this discolouration
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3. |
Eden Internal
07:21
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Longing for what I know exists
Distant artificial light, a seductive incandescence,
My lone hope for escape
Travelling aside crystal streams, mountainous horizon
Breathing the oaken air
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A cave births flocking figures
Concerned, condescending, constricting
Offering a siren to evade the glow, to retreat to safety
In the familiar darkness of their cave
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Venom spills from my open wounds,
to hew their demands, to silence their idiocy
Running, erratic mind
Forced visions of a sacred utopia consume me
Paint over these foreboding thoughts
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Entering, hunched, small
Suppressing vulnerability's crescendo
Elusive s(t)rangers flit by, blurred static sillhouettes
Years yearning
Tears burning
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Led to the eye, judged by the unknowing
Ribcage bursting open
Tear the cellophane vessel, slither the broken, weak truth
Bare child self
Internal rust his scent
Exterior mask discarded, and now blurred like the others
This place is far from Eden
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4. |
Collapse
06:44
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Black forest
Infected green and yellow hues
A maze of sylvan pillars
There is no vibrancy is this reflected pit
Soil milked of life, strained of anything pleasant
Skeletal leaves wrung of their verdant smiles
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The soil does not mind
The trees do not care
They grow on optimistically
A fungal parad(e) of decay
And therein flourishes new life
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Awaken running for my life
Giant humming predator
Light guiding me to exit
Mother insect, curse she brings
On beating glass wings
Poison sting
Chemical injecting
Brain cells ring
Propelled beyond reality
Sinking through dreamtime
Internal realm, blinding shadows
Ashen shell hardening
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5. |
Illusion of Self
01:50
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Wh(e)n the mind is no longer a tool
But an unstable home
All one's energy must be spent on making this home liveable
A paradoxical spiral
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Unstitch the thread of this conditioning from your skin
Shed the burdening mask they moulded
And you dis-cover what has always dwelt beneath
A deep ocean of peace
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Though all is blind
I begin to see
That I am you
And you are me
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As the voices begin to fade, I return to nature's warm embrace
Looking upon two trees before me
The left presenting a familiar, structured path
The right - an undiluted wilderness
Nebulously signalling between two mountains
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Today I choose the fruit of unfamiliarity,
for I have nothing left to lose
Guided only by intuition, I leave the known behind
I am beginning to sense so(m)ething deeper
No longer disconnected from the flawless asymmetry
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7. |
Sky Opening
03:08
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Emerging
Stillness in the earthen mountain breeze
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Aquatic Goddess
Sapphire gaze, vortex of wisdom
Her winged frame rises from an ethereal pool
A pale blue aura for skin
Secure, home
She breathes her life into me
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Tearing through my soul
Swimming through my veins
Piercing every nerve
Cleansing, opening, awakening
Jarring seizures
Visions of infinite planes
Metallic (r)inging, slicing through my skull
Erupting from my crown
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I feel the sky opening - no longer stagnant
I feel the barriers dissipate - no longer separate
I feel my mind shatter open - no longer searching
For the key I've been searching for is somewhere inside -
the key to Eden internal
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My perception is clearing
The discolouration is resolving
and the fires of all my suffering
Have become the ashes from which the phoenix is reborn
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8. |
To Manipulate the Echo
06:45
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To manipulate the echo of an inner voice
To tamper with (c)onsequence and never cause
Is to live as a worm, sifting through life
Spiralling into problem 84
Yearning for something to slake the desperation,
to pacify the growing void
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I am evolving in this white kingdom, of ancient colossus
Lines of wisdom in majestic mountain faces
Holy mystic, liquid aura opening my eyes
Absorbing a light I've never known
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In the empty space dwells life
In the silence between sounds
In the space between stars
In the underlying awareness behind the thinking mind
The fountain within all
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My shadow grows heavy
Obsidian orbs converge in zenith, forming leaden mist
Alien stones - spherical, uniform
Filling the devoid, opened sky
Hear the cave calling
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9. |
The Healing
11:10
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Birthed into a cavern
Trapped in the past
Destiny is becoming manifest
Exploring within my own consciousness
Fragmented mind surrounds me
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Circle of black, all encompassing
Submerged, reclaim the forgotten
Desperate hands grasping at limbs
Pulling in every direction
Mind and body separating
Englufed by shadow
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Obsidian deity descends to quell the earth above me
Weathering shroud of black
Walls crumbling i(n)wards
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Feel the sunrise embrace the stagnant, neglected, fractals
I am beyond free
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10. |
Exiting the Chrysalis
03:50
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Discarded all the weight
Arriving back at a dead end
Broken vessel, re-entry denied, impenetrable shell
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Lost, floating in white eternity
Bathed in oneness
Returning to source, dissolvin(g) into everything, recalling the whole
I've learned so much behind these eyes
Out of the chrysalis, soaring, returning home
To incarnate again
In this beautiful, cyclical, dance of creation
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