Waking Death - Ethereal

Free me from this prison formed of flesh

Too long have I desired to depart

Wake me not from my lucid dreams

For there I tread the path towards the great unseen

Thus I rise

Rid of human form

This futile false image of God

Soul ascent

On wings of death I fly

To liberate the self is to die

Eternity in silence

An ever open eye fixed upon the starless emptiness of sky

Ever seeking solace in bitter nothingness

The anguish of existence lingering in death

Time counts down to zero

Moments cease to pass

For here there is no future or memory of the past

Amaranthine darkness

The gateways are concealed

Ignite me with the flame by which they are revealed

When at last I am unbound

Rid of hopeless need and aspiration

Out from the chasm I’ll ascend

Through gates wide open

To where the truth is absolute

Where all obstructions are removed

Where mortal rules are broken

Where all delusions are destroyed

I am here

My waking death

And there upon the departure of my being

An all-encompassing darkness encircled and enraptured me

It set me upon the winding pathways towards damnation

So that I could know for myself the absolute absence of anything