The Final Pursuit of Light

And so it all

Has to come to this?

A final pursuit

To conclude my emptiness

A golden light reveals

A fortress, ensconced in blood

I venture forwards

Not knowing if it truly exists

Black talons grip and call me home

To transcend form, to transcend form

This eternal ashen rope around my neck

May stunt my growth into stone

I no longer wish to exist

As ash in this realm of stone icons

A myriad of obstacles

Have laid upon this path

But none as great

As the mirror's scarlet gaze

Beyond the mirror lies an imprint dream world

The stygian blue within which wrought my soul and mind

The sediment of my spirit manifests as five faces

Its mirror eyes weep silver ashen tears

Solo - Walburn

Solo - Longerbeam

Marish and frozen, wide eyed

It comes near, pale and white-eyed

Kneels to whisper in my ears

Hemlock words for my demise

Enraptured and wading into time

Nostalgia laced years for all time

Hearken back to shores of days gone by

Rapt in silver, seraphs cloaked in sky

Solo - Iacovella

Their pursuit of light

Has been theft of my own

But my own, it lies beyond

Obsidian facades long wept in shadows

From a flaming horizon and blazing dark night

I long for viridian freedom

Freedom from erroneous skin

Which I thought I had shed

Shedding of five faces

Revealing my true home

Yet, that home still feels so far away

Locked in obsidian, the key to my blood

The bleak mirage of self will dissipate

And reveal a path, but to where?

And it's nowhere, this is nowhere

Do I not belong beyond the end?

True understanding of where I must build my home

Is not this fortress, but on the plains of golden life

This pursuit is final

Their pursuit of light

Has been theft of my own

But my own, it lies beyond

If this is truly the end

And there is no more to see

Release me from these shackles

Such that I may be set free

Solo - Sanders

A life full of newfound purpose

A desire to continue

Shall rise to stone from ash

I have begun anew