1. IN CONTEMPLATION OF EXISTENCE

Embraced by eternal Winter
Untainted by perfidious light
Engulfed in perpetual solitude
My endless solitary endeavour
I revel in the bleak desolation
Of this exquisite night eternal
Free from carnal tribulation
Where thought and deed are obsolete
Alone
I contemplate
Existence
Immersed
In the infinity of the void
Where time and space
Are concepts concealed
By the shadows
Of a thousand millennia
There is nothing
But vast emptiness
A journey so profound
A quest for truth and meaning
Yet voracity lurks beyond
Comprehension remain elusive
There is no rhyme nor reason
No purpose, nor grand design
There is only a here and now
Of no consequence or value


2. DELUSION OF LIFE

Alive but lifeless, wretched and woeful
Frail ghosts enshrouded by the fog of torpor
Humble and meek, enthralled and subdued
Superfluous and oblivious to enslavement
Worthless subordinates, acolytes of futility
Inferior drones blinded by the shadows of dusk
Sheep led astray, lost and weak
Fall into line, falling, falling...
Avert their eyes to see not the truth
Cover their ears and speak without words
Limbs bent backward to defy a stride
Oh, to exist in blissful ignorance
I challenge the passage of time
And question the illusion of life
With its myths of apathy and ecstasy
I reject this myopic delusion


3. NIHILISM VORTEX

Mankind is but a grain of sand
In the desert of infinity
A single drop of rain
Falling upon the ocean vast
Can humanity qualify and quantify its existence?
No more than dust can command the winds on which it is blown
Discard the old morality of servitude and equality
So I endure as a work of art
Liberated in the knowledge
That there is no universal truth
Life is devoid of meaning
Mankind is a dying breath
Whipped away by the tempest


4. A CAUSTIC VEXATION

The emptiness is absolute
Submerged in bleak despondency
Mind shattered and body broken
I don't feel much of anything
Life is torture
Defiled in essence
Existence is pain
Cursed by affliction
Black infestation
Devours from within
My defences breached
I'm ripped asunder
Beyond degradation
Beyond humiliation
Beyond mutilation
Beyond redemption
What's the use?
Is there any point?
I hold my fate in my own hands
I just don't give a fuck any more
How could this happen to me?
Now I'm lost in dejection
Deprived of all hope
By this caustic vexation
I welcome exquisite death
The luxurious oblivion
Of the eternal slumber
Decays tender embrace


5. INTO ETERNITY

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