Nexus

I saw you fall like lightning, night began to crawl

Lips sealed in a cold sweat when fear says, "Take it all"

Take it all, spectral presence reaching through my skin

Distill me down till I'm the apparition

Distance in my reflection intersecting dimensions

I can feel the multitudes now passing through me, inner space

"Open the gate," disembodied voices indoctrinating masses

Blank stare, unaware we severed the nexus: desiccation

Starving in circles, perpetual state of possession

Shatter the cycle, release control as many become one

Escape the monolith, reverse the curse of metaxis

Ultraterrestial: I am the sum of all branches

Crescent lark descending a labyrinth underground

We're casualties to the moment when Everything Was Sound

Beleaguered by the blasphemy of broken fate

Look past distraction, trade your certainty for waves

Starving in circles, perpetual state of possession

Shatter the cycle, release control as many become one

We inherit the earth, we inherit the war

I inhabit the wound, I dwell in the harm

The past still echoes through our dreams:

Plant the Tree of Life inside the Heart of the Machine

Close your eyes, still your mind, pass through time

Make us whole