Fen - Bereft lyrics

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Alone... <br />

Hollow... <br />

Ashen.<br />

Life promises only death.<br />

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And thus I am again sentenced to solitude, <br />

In silent contemplation, a vision framed in grey<br />

Falls upon world-weary eyes and brings torpor.<br />

The years behind left drained and colourless.<br />

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I look within to fan the embers, <br />

Charred and enervated beyond recall to flame.<br />

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For so long, I have journeyed, one weary step upon another, <br />

The dust of a decade's failures ground underfoot.<br />

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And so I fix my gaze to myriad desolation.<br />

The harsh wind punished a frail simulacra<br />

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On the precipice of spiritual oblivion, <br />

Without and within only ashes remain.<br />

As the elements now I shall be.<br />

As one with the enduring stone and the onrushing waters of wild rivers.<br />

As one with the burnished hue of the dawn<br />

And the misty closure of the twilit evenfall.<br />

To cross the foils and Stygian peatfields.<br />

To stride unfeeling towards the eternal periphery.<br />

These bitter lands have borne witness to so much<br />

That I now embrace within a lonely<br />

And burned-out will.<br />

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When only distant memories chime across a spiritual vacuum, <br />

The last vestiges of life long since extinguished.<br />

A dying visage whipped by storms charged with the stench of despair.<br />

The entirety of my essence, the nucleus of my humanity now scoured.<br />

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I am Bereft.