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Drown the Earth in sorrow
Fill the Earth with negative
Drench it, watch the world choke
Saturate, as if a plant diluted
Withering, from a torrent of grief
Drown the Earth in sorrow
Break the dam obstructing all your pain
Let it overflow, and consume all as a great flood
Purify, the world’s last cleanse
These tears fall from the sky swelling
Quenching the thirst of pain’s deep misery
The storms of grief cascade, and overflow the seas of dismay
We choke on what’s within
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Wandering through deserts built from dust of kings
Nothing could save them in the end
A solemn journey to understand the failure
The once powerful fell so low
In pursuit of treasures out of fiction
Oblivious to the soul’s dereliction
Forsaken by treasures out of fiction
Revelation at the soul’s dereliction
Blinded by the desire for more
Unwilling to leave walls ornate
Realizing far too late
Annihilation was their fate
The eyes of kings, they could not foresee
The self-indulgent subjugation
Empires crushed from within
Left with nothing, in lamentation
Lamentations for the kings
Those once mighty now weep
For all conquest, and riches stolen
The kings had already died within
In pursuit of treasures out of fiction
Oblivious to the soul’s dereliction
Forsaken by treasures out of fiction
Revelation at the soul’s dereliction
Stubborn indulgence, rejecting importance, destroying their kingdoms, obsessing for objects resulting in death
Deceived by desire, embracing hell-fire, lamenting the kings of old, forsaken by cursed gold
Blinded by the desire for more
Unwilling to leave walls ornate
Realizing far too late
Annihilation was their fate
The eyes of kings, they could not foresee
The self-indulgent subjugation
Empires crushed from within
Left with nothing, in lamentation
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In youth, there’s creation, discovery anew
In dreams, a fantasy in all that we do
Worlds developed with future ahead
No concern, toward that future we fled
But with age, the dreams no longer remembered
Lost, plagued, hope quickly dismembered
The wonder now lost to reality
No time for the past’s simplicity
The worlds we once knew all fade away
The memories that we hold fade all the same
The dreams of our youth, we leave behind
The visions of the past are all lost to time
Awakening from a dream of tomorrow
Reality reveals there’s no path to follow
With no truth in sight, we’ve ruined creation
Emptiness has left a senseless sensation
Losing ourselves to despondency
A void consuming all that we need
Vacuous, eternal, crushing all that we do
The worlds we once knew dwindle from view
The worlds we once knew all fade away
The memories that we hold fade all the same
The dreams of our youth, we leave behind
The visions of the past are all lost to time
As life takes, as life breaks down around us
We stand firm in our past, in our truth, in the worlds we once knew
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...Return To Dust
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As I stand, approaching completion
Reflecting on all I once held dear
With passing in sight, I’m filled with insight
A realization that I must not fear
When the end is upon me, the worlds I created will come to an end
With silence, a passing is marked
All creation returns
The fading of all recollection
Exist anew, as dust
All the wonders I’ve pursued
The words I’ve poured from my soul
No one to hear, lost to the wind
What will I leave when I die?
All I valued will leave with me
What held meaning in life has no need to live on
With silence, a passing is marked
All creation returns
The fading of all recollection
Exist anew, as dust
The worlds we once knew will fade away, as we all return to dust
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