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A being bred of nihilistic dreams
Writhing amongst the filth of consciousness
Distantly pacing around the veil of death
Perpetual loneliness with no reprieve
There is no hope for the misanthrope
Spiraling ever nearer the taunting blackness
Denial is the only grace
No enlightenment is present here
In this time and space
Craving assimilation yet separation
Indecision mocks the peace
No will to end nor persist
A prisoner in self induced torment
The abyss will wrest at last
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An ethereal trance in utter blackness
Eyes locked inward, through a filter of blood
Forcing two realms' intersection
Offering life unto the desperate
A reflection of the corporal form, distorted in red
Pints of life smeared on the mirror
An irresistible stench to the dead
To otherworldly spirits your soul will be fed
A lurking presence heeds a carnal beckon
Bloodstained glass the only protection
Otherworldly knowledge beyond comprehension
Opening the mind for possession
A ghoulish inhabitant stares from the parallel
Tearing you through the barrier, devoid of a vessel
Eyes pouring crimson, jaw hanging wide
A shriek unfulfilled trapped where once was your mind
Clad in shade, lit in flame
Only a husk left behind
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Walker of Unseen Planes
07:16
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A scene so familiar
With a screen of surreal
An otherworldly connection
Forcing intersection
Drifting through the veil
Separate from conscious will
A beckoning specter
With a promise to heal
Contact the other realms
A jarring accident
Desire for knowledge
Powers the other form
Two bodies from one mind
A being of energy, leaves the husk behind
Stretching the cord to it's limit
Yet feeling no resistance
To walk the planes unseen
And physical simultaneous
A realm full of light
Illuminates the darkest of minds
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Moontrance
10:17
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An entrancing orb, spilling a radiant glow
drenching the flesh ridden earth
with ethereal energy
invisible to the repugnant
alluring to the enlightened
practitioners of the craft
absorbing every particle
gifted by her celestial body
devoid of expectation for reciprocation
revealing ghastly inhabitants
of realms only known
to those of refined intuition
and unfettered perception
the third hour, when the enlightened gather
misanthropic musings
dissipate under her light
humbled is the herald of hate
peak tranquility awaits
those who meet her gaze
neither challenging nor submitting
to the maiden, mother, and crone
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I approach the edge of the woods
ground frozen, ice coating the bark
my final steps await
as ghosts of my being escape
with each final breath i release
a path thick with twisted trees
slowly opening my flesh
with every step further
rigid fingers acting free of autonomy
drops of sacred elixir freeze
marking my trail of self destruction
drawing nearer the sight of my fortress
a one way gate, beckoning my being
delusions of grandeur extinguished
in an epiphenic fury of self hatred
the gate vanishes upon my entrance
walled in my fortress of misanthropic isolation
each vessel drained of elixir
staining these cold stone walls
escape into utter blackness
my eternal entrapment
my slow death in the cold
my frozen self extinction
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