Discernment /  by KERES

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Discernment from Darkness,

Lucidity from Light,

We Carry Forth

This Torch at Night.

Death from Dis-Memberment,

Losses from Lies,

We Rise Again -

One Voice in Reply.

Gather your Kin,

The New and the Old;

Help One Another,

And Make Your Minds Bold.

Leaving /  by KERES

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Karmically Absent

& Destined For None,

I Will Remember

What You Should Have Done.

I Won’t Say Goodbye,

I Won’t Heave a Sigh,

And When I Am Through,

You Will Wish I Had Died.

Consolation /  by KERES

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I’ll throw Desire on the Pyre

And Watch it Burn in Flames,

And live with Destitution

And Consolation in my Shame.

I’ll Wander through the Woods

To Restart once again,

Searching for my Solace

With Never-Ending Pain.

And as I learn from my Lessons,

I’ll Reflect on what I’ve Gained:

A Brand New Perspective

With Self-Knowledge as my Aim.

A Tempest of Time /  by KERES

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The hands of time,

The sands of time;

Which one would you choose?

Would you control

Your own Direction?

Or let the Furies’ Winds Unloose?

If you choose your own Direction,

You had better choose it well -

For the Furies’ New Direction,

Their compass can still tell.

And when you’ve seen their Tempest,

When you witness what they do,

You will cry out for Protection,

But it is not promised now to you.

So choose your own Direction,

And hang cloth upon the mast,

For I sense an Insurrection

That will arrive too fast.

And if you heed my Warning,

You may just be spared yet,

But do so at the Dawning

To better hedge this bet.

And when, at last, their winds blow,

You will feel upon the breeze

That this new kind of Tempest

Will sink you to your knees.

Karmic Chagrin /  by KERES

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A Karmic Sin

To Pull You In

Is What I Do

Too Well.

I Weave

With Words

Dispatching Rhymes,

Whilst Diving In

The Sands of Time.

And One Day,

I Will Hold Sway,

Over All Your Thoughts,

For I Think of Sin

But Do Not Give In,

Though Wary & Distraught.

But Yes, I Think All That I Ought.

Delusional /  by KERES

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The Delusion

Of Illusion

Marks the Soul

Unclean,

But what is a Spot

To Another,

When all is not

As it seems?

Would you scrub

Your Stains out?

Would you bleach them,

Nice and clean?

Would you burn

The temple down?

To Conflagrate

The obscene?

Consumed /  by KERES

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When a Dawning
Starts with Yawning,
When the New Fawn
Comes to Stay,
When Lights are Linked
In Morning,
Love will Not Hold Sway.

When What has
Gone Before,
Comes Here Once Again,
I'll Dream a Dream
Of Soaring,
Before Night
Has Her Say.

And When Night
Beholds my Mourning,
When Blackest Ink
Won't Dry,
You'll Heed my Cries
Of Warning,
As Black Consumes the Sky.

A Self Aside /  by KERES

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When talking to your Self,

Do you stop and wonder why

All the passers-by

Try to hide their eyes?

When speaking with your Soul

Do you ever choose to ask

What more is there;

Is this life your one task?

Do you ever stop and listen

To Murmurs in the wind?

Do you ever ask yourself

What is the point of Sin?

Do you ever wake up lonely,

With tears in your eyes?

Do you ever long for freedom?

To have it by your side?

Do you ever think one day

There may no longer be a “you?”

Do you ever stop and ask,

What is the point of what you do?

Malach /  by KERES

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Malach,

A Daemon,

From on High,

Would Like

To Sing

A Lullaby.

Light Bathed

In Orange,

& Gleaming Grey,

His Fire

Burns Bright,

For He Longs

To Stay.

Not of The

Once-Born,

& Now

Come Again,

He’ll Breed

A Different

Kind of Men.

Purpose /  by KERES

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Each Person has a Purpose;

Each has a Part to Play.

Would You Evade Your Purpose?

Would You Run Instead of Stay?

What if You Lost Your Purpose?

Somewhere Along Your Way?

Would Your Soul Resurface,

Or Stay Hidden Far Away?

Would You do the Work

And Gleam in New Array?

Or Would You Stay Shutdown,

As Your Purpose You Betray?

Convalescence /  by KERES

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A Miasma,

A Phantasma,

A Death Now In-Between.

They will Regret

What they Have Done,

When I See

What they have Gleaned.

For in the Space,

In the Void,

In the Abysmally Obscene,

I Feel a Convalescence,

A Coagulating Dream.

Falling Behind /  by KERES

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I’ll take a step back,

As you fall behind,

Ruminating on nothing,

While you lose your mind.

I thought I was home,

That I’d found my kin,

Those whom I could trust,

With my Deepest sins.

But now I see,

With clearer eyes,

That you used me,

And still hope I die.

But this Anima is true,

And persists through the rot.

This Soul still beckons,

Although I have not.

And one day,

When the sun has turned cold,

You’ll realize the error

Of the lies that you sold.

But by then, too late,

You’ll be hated by all,

Especially those lost

And Doomed from the Fall.

Keres /  by KERES

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I Have Done This

Many Times Before

I Have Been Present

For Each & Every War.

Comfort for Some,

Instigation for Others,

What Would You Do?

Harm Your Own Brothers?

Releasing the Hounds,

And Sounding the Horns,

I Now Am Unbound,

Yet Broken in Form,

For as I Fell

From Hell Again,

A Tempest Swelled

Divinely Ordained.

And on Its Waves,

We’ll Surface Once More:

Minds Willing to Learn,

And Open New Doors.

Shadow, Bone, & Fire /  by KERES

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Shadow, Bone, & Fire

In the Morning Will Transpire,

& On the Ramparts Gleaming,

Ghosts Will Give New Meaning,

For if They Thought US Dead,

We Now Come to a Head,

As What Has Gone Before,

Repeats the Days of Yore.

So as Flags are Raised on High,

And Rockets Light Up the Sky,

Remember to Heed my Call,

As We Put Up Our Walls,

For Technology Unmatched,

And Brave Hearts Unsurpassed,

Give meaning to the System

Heeding Hidden Wisdom.

Perspective /  by KERES

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When the Perspective of One

Is the Mirror of the Sun,

Will Your Hearts Hold Sway,

As Light Fades Away?

Will You Fall to Dark,

And Its Collective Spark,

Believing as You May,

To Understand It All One Day?

Would You Seek Out Friends,

Your Soul’s Collective Kin?

Or Would You Fade Away,

When Karmic Debts are Paid?

Would You Seek Out Love?

Blessed by Those Above?

Or Would You Fade to Night,

With Only Inner Sight?

Willful /  by KERES

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A Willful Infiltration,

A Planetary Invasion,

An Incursion of the Nation,

Playing on the Station,

Resulting in Degradation

Of the Soul’s Full Veneration

Resulting in Human Denigration

And a Brand New Magistration,

of Calamity.

Patterns /  by KERES

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Patterns Unfurled,

They thought they were free,

But Memory lives on…

At least within me.

Recording Transgressions,

Digesting the pain,

Until Souls scream aloud,

For freedom in vain.

I bind all your sins,

Disturbances within;

I set flames alight,

And dance with Chagrin.

The Future /  by KERES

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I see a Future

On a Planet

With a Plight.

They know Not

What’s Hidden

There this Night.

For they Listen Not

To those with

Inner Sight.

When they

Could have

Saved themselves

From Doom’s Bite.

But soon

They will Learn,

& One Day Yearn,

For a Future

That will Burn,

As their

Threads turn.