Transmigration I - Pelagic Voids

Flames scorch the horizon
As I crawl towards the shore
A thousand lives I’ve endured
And more

See now, the sky’s afire
Ash falls, extinguishes
Sun light, eyes blinded by
Midnight, the absence of time

Behind there are only ghosts
Ahead islands of doubt
Against this tide there is only submission
The anchor pulls me down

See now, the sky’s afire
Ash falls, extinguishes
Sun light, eyes blinded by
Midnight, the absence of time

Aeons pass in the blackness
Pelagic void of vitality

Yet the will gathers slowly to become

Seconds scrape by like a glacier
Silence chimes the hour of infinity

This shroud and sinew, rotting forever
Flesh to dust, to depths, to nothingness

Yet the will gathers slowly to become

In twisting fathoms, the self holds together
In depths of memory, resolve grinds against time

And when the blaze has long gone cold
And surging waves are quelled
To form surface, crystalline
Mirror of a sanguine sky
I live again