| It dwells in the esoteric
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| The realm of astral thoughts
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| Latched upon the thinker’s art
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| Scheming for the source
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| Engorged by stolen doctrines
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| Its malignance beckons forth
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| Now, manifest
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| Anthropomorphized force
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| Throned without will for ascension
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| Quenched by drought in a thirst for truth
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| For what was I but a spec of dirt within the dust?
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| Cast aside to return an empty ambivalent soul
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| When the spark is liberated
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| As from the cradle torn
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| The darkness shapes a vacant persona
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| His nothingness is born
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| Behold his lack of lips to rad
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| His numbing face forlorn
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| Grotesque simulacrum of non
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| Whose coming dulls the dawn
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| To know the lure of the abyss
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| Is transformation of the self
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| The gnosis of reality: a compromise
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| How can you reconcile the brevity of a single life
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| With the grander story of humanity?
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| Glib aphorisms won’t suffice!
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| To resist the abyssal allure
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| Is to deny the human condition
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| I persist, the old ideal anew
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| In exaltation of the null |