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Distant, driftless
I hear the drone
The permeation
The unfathomable
A stillness, unobserved dismay
A hopelessness draws near
To take away
Etiolated, unwanted, directionless
The discarded
Through waves of endless senescence
The signs of change
I feel the toll of every breath I take
And I rend
Tear
To rip through folds of matter and stare blankly upward into tapestries of fault
We're muted and undone
I feel it crawling
The presence of impermanence
Expiration
To exhale a final calamity
The whisper of who we were ceases to be
Ever closer
I hear the drone
The permeation
The unfathomable
A stillness, now observed and permanent
It cannot be described
To wilt and wane
To wilt and wane
Bathe in agony
Bathe in agony
Bathe in agony

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