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This sickly world. Clasped within our hands.

These phones. These megaton compilations of electrons.

These things.

Alternate realities in their own selves.

We would be better off, happier, being wholly absorbed in them, if it would mean only returning to this physical plane for the most routine of life-keeping habits.

Cast off like this, into one world and being torn into another. Perpetual struggle is made raw. Perpetual. Pain.

Purgatory on Earth.

What litter do we keep ourselves beside, why be compelled to pick it up
Have we not heard the grace of wind enough to realise we are beside

By what machinations are we

Prize me from this existence

Rip me away from the mind and heart that holds me bound

Let me wander the plains in mindlessness,

For there be more joy found there than the canticle barbarism here

Wander

Wander

Wander

Let Just mind prevail not

Kill it

Entrench it in a fiery pit of earth

Cry for the glistening horizon by which you direct your force of might

Walk to it

Walk

And think not to stop

To stop is to give way to the compulsion

A compulsion to live

Live not

There is no way

No way

No way out

Keep what you have and imbue it with the darkest of minds

For spiders will be the feast upon this plate of salvation

Rage and rage all the more

He who is

He who is not

He cannot be one

And he cannot be both

Thus He be neither

And thus He be not

Ride forth young one

Let the brimstone sky of fortune guide your path in stride

Have a horse saddled and search for the crimson rainbow

For there, in the back strewn meadows of paling gloom

You shall have stride

You shall have freedom

Wander to

Wander fro

Ni shall be content

Born an entity

Become a crow

Die a tribe

Bethrow a web

Clasp shield and sword

Ride out to the pale mist

Shadow your cleaves

And wet your brow

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