1. DROWNED

Death
The universe emerges
A billion flickering lights

Birth
Ephemeral cycle of awareness
Storm of images and desperate questions
A lifetime expands
I cry out
Until Sleep finally drowns my fragile voice

An echo vanishes in the void
Unheard


2. CASKET OF DYING FLESH

Trapped inside your mind,
No escape
You feel that you're left behind,
Stigmatizing fate

In constant disbelief,
You spend your existence,
There is no true relief,
You choose the path of
Least resistance.

Your mind, slave to your excuses,
In shrouded daze,
You can see that the truth is so near,
You can grasp its blissful rays

You choose to exist within your head,
And before you know
It's all just illusion,
You go into life and realize
You are dead


3. THE FUNERAL MARCH

The depths of the forest wide open before me;
Drenched in crepuscular light
Irritating roots and branches
Lead me into an infinite absurd maze
As I am slowly walking above grey leaves,
I perceive the funeral march

The procession of black-clothed ghosts
Crawls towards its impending doom
Their faces are empty masks of forgotten hope;
Relinquished by it long ago
As I am being petrified by their appearance,
Their gaze suddenly grazes me

They are turning
Their judgement; cast towards me
They are approaching

I am running past the trees, hag-ridden; breath abandons me
I have not been prepared for this;
I have not been chosen for this
Finally, my fall -
I bury myself beneath the ashes of their shattered dreams