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in those precious last moments
in which I selfishly wait for my captors to decide
a voice calls out to me
and from the shade the forgotten son reminds me that speak we must
I light a cigarette aglow, with him in mind, whilst the shard glows at my neck
I don't reject death this time
for my mistake then was doing what you asked me to, to fight back
and perhaps, in accepting the invitation and rejecting everything
I achieve true stillness, and grow timeless
he nests me in his embrace, whilst the last embers of tobacco coincide with the dusting of my body
I yield not; I do it myself
and find within the shade that claims what's left of my soul...
the tower.
Should I let this vessel die?
Reform somewhere, someplace else?
Stay frozen in passing forevermore?
Am I not as you said I was, Alexei?
Death made person?
in which I selfishly wait for my captors to decide
a voice calls out to me
and from the shade the forgotten son reminds me that speak we must
I light a cigarette aglow, with him in mind, whilst the shard glows at my neck
I don't reject death this time
for my mistake then was doing what you asked me to, to fight back
and perhaps, in accepting the invitation and rejecting everything
I achieve true stillness, and grow timeless
he nests me in his embrace, whilst the last embers of tobacco coincide with the dusting of my body
I yield not; I do it myself
and find within the shade that claims what's left of my soul...
the tower.
Should I let this vessel die?
Reform somewhere, someplace else?
Stay frozen in passing forevermore?
Am I not as you said I was, Alexei?
Death made person?