Riven Mirrors

Awake now with eyes open wide

While conscious fails to recover

Body still paralyzed

Doomed to observe, repeat, rewind

Slowly stand up and begin to trudge towards the light

Multitudes, stumbling

As our breath gets shallower

Our trembling hands grope for a sign

Deep down

Into this crevice where we sink and we respawn

Rocks like blades to cling unto

We only see what we're allowed

Until the clouds begin to thin out

And we're forced to witness

The struggle of one another

So then we'll know for sure

We are alone and yet we are a crowd

Cut from the cloth of the absolute

Riven mirrors reflecting an opaque light

We were given enough reason

To perceive our lack of time

The anguish flows and we're falling behind

Revealing our uncoincidence

With the phantoms of a lifetime

Let the current shape the riverbed

The trails and trenches of our next life

Awake now with eyes open wide

On our knees, we'll no longer climb

But excavate the depth of this sombre rift

Attaining a principle without form

A living force that breathes through us

Deep down

Into this crevice where we sink and we respawn

Rocks like blades to cling unto

We only see what we're allowed

Until the clouds begin to thin out

And we're forced to witness the struggle of one another

So then we'll know for sure

We are alone and yet we are a crowd