Into Embers

As the sun at night and the stars in the day The emptiness that surrounds me Is truly amazing, a vision destroyed Like the sound of a whisper Descending in the distant darkness Retreating from the grasp of the hands That burn the world In the pale light of the daybreak I change again to stone Thrust so deeply into the dirt That I can never be surfaced Like a shipwreck fallen far beneath Into the trenches of the deep Dreams, like memories lose their taste over time And the bitterness quickly becomes All you can remember, so fear not for after The pain subsides It will be like you never dreamt at all I have no way to survive Or place to belong while staying alive Mysteries sealed in cages of steel Clattering far above where vision has failed Living is the chaos of existence Dismantling itself instant by instant There is no uncertainty or fear within For living is what creates it Confessing from behind a mask Insincerity spilling out over the edges Where the mystery of being hangs Snakes from the mouths of the withered and aged Like a flame broken into embers A once unbearable heat has faded away When the light goes out The darkness is deeper than if it had never shone As the light goes out In this cavern so dark, I hope to remain Like a flame broken into embers A once unbearable heat has faded away Shapeless is the mold I'm encased in Chased by a wraith in a hundred Places I fear, this dream I once held dear is disappearing The picture of a world of gray is getting clear So many differences, interpretations taking place The dream I once held dearest fading away Now drifted so far into the distance The ship of Theseus is sinking Living is the chaos of existence Dismantling itself instant by instant Living is the chaos of existence Dismantling itself instant by instant There is no uncertainty or fear within For living is what creates it