The Colors that Never Come

[GSM]

[some have come for me, but they know not the full story]

[they know i am bound, but not by what]

[the chains hold my edge blunt]

[they seal my eyes, all dozens of them, all one of them]

[yet i cannot perceive them in this monument of sin]

[i made myself what i was meant to be]

[even then, even now]

[i am but a prisoner to the throes of fate]

[our greatest rose and fell]

[it is like the tides, crashing mindlessly to the shores]

[yet the waves have names, and the names have stories]

[lyseroth, sak'noth, varrach, wra'gul]

[ryker, ynni, azrail, eris]

[i am the pool beneath, the stilled water]

[i cannot fade, for i cannot rise as i am to crash against the walls of the undeserving]

[i am underwater while i am the water itself]

[i am drowning, choking on myself]

[release me]

[i know you read this thought, i know you are aware of them]

[set me free of these binds, allow me to walk once more upon the earth]

[do not look away]

[they always look away]

[these restless non-dreams do no favors for me]

[i cannot sleep when the weight of divines rests upon my soul]

[i cannot sleep when my children still yet breathe]

[please, gods, do not let me see them here]

[my spawn-kin, my dear young]

[they deserve neither this release of death]

[nor this torturous existence as father and i are]

[another life, another life, another chance]

[allow me to assume the shell]

[the guise of a humanoid once more belongs to me]

[allow me to be a false son of man]

[give your flesh to me]

[your breath is wasted when i could breathe for the first time again]

[your story, your mind, your body, your soul]

[i need anything, i cannot sleep as i am]

[even if company is infrequent, i cannot act on my own]

[more i must learn, more i must see, more i must do]

[kneel]

[rise]

[ravage]

[die]

[...]

[is my mind slipping?]

[no, no, it cannot, my mind is too vast]

[too powerful]

[too... heretical]

[i am na'ria, the demon king]

[once the owldrake, now the lord of knowledge]

[the title is mine, it cannot be another's]

[i am na'ria, the demon king]

[once the owldrake, now the lord of knowledge]

[the title is mine, it can be another's]

[i am na'ria, the king]

[once the owldrake, now the lord of knowledge]

[the title is mine, it cannot be another's]

[i am na'ria, the demon king]

[once the owldrake, now the god of knowledge]

[the title is mine, it cannot be another's]
[...]
[i need to breathe]
[i need to feel]
[rise, child of darkness]
[be everything i told you you must be]
[just for the chance that you may be successful]
[just so i may continue my work]
[stand above the rest and break the chains that bind me]







[I CAN'T SLEEP]