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Elpis

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1.
Eclipse 07:44
Space is an empty void, a medium in which only light shall pass. Gazing at the stars, joined in constellations An ominous light shines through the clouds The howl of wolves mask the deafening screams Screams lost in the vacuum of space A canvas of void emotions painted black Tears cascade across the fabric of space Breath becomes intangible lungs fill with cold Body aches with the weight of a thousand Fingers tremble with arthritic touch Skin whiter than a flake of snow Body powerless crippled by time and dust Soul drifts slowly towards the black hole Forms of life hide in the abyss Awaiting the long discovery Forsaken in this time and space I will fill this void A white dwarf burning giant, ever burning light Supernova burning bright about to parish I shall wreak havoc with every breath Suspended in animation lost sense of direction No clear path before me No sense of a trail blazed I reach for the light Only to fall into the void
2.
Could this land be a prison? for us to live in eternal torment Not a prison for our bodies one that imprisons our thought imprisons our minds when a light is lit a shadow cast unable to read while flooded with light when darkness is at its darkest stars shine the brightest As I sit in this desolate place reflecting on what it once was, I feel a strange presence, one that I thought was lost A bonding feeling with all that is around me A connection with nature As I sit on the remains that was once a monument A pinnacle of life and its beauty divine A life form severed, cut from existence A shrine to all that has been lost based in carbon to nature I shall return ashes to ashes I shall return to the earth nature will strike with a blind vengeance Revenge for the years of torture and slavery As I sit in this desolate place reflecting on what it once was, I feel a strange presence, one that I thought was lost The alignment of the stars, Patterns made from light. Directing my vision northward What is it you wish me to see? Rivers of Jade depleted A beast forged from arbor and stone Boulders Split to forge a path The skyline scorched with the fire of life
3.
Dark Matter 04:55
taken before birth now soiling salt of the earth incased in a stone tomb never delivered from the womb cursed vessel sailing in a storm carrion consumed by zombie rot The swarms around processes more thought The bloody curse taints the unborn The body is a temple Providing food and shelter For the unborn child A demon of her mothers eyes Dark clouds incase this rancid infestation of a body Demons cry out their screams pierce thought A carrion swarm haunts the body Vultures swirling around like a halo Grimly visage dressed in death Flesh clings to her ghostly frame Red in the eyes and from the mouth had to chew her way out Grimly visage dressed in death Flesh clings to her ghostly frame Red in the eyes and from the mouth had to chew her way OUT!! The Spirit draws ever nearer Passing through the cemetery gates Blood drips from the mouth Flesh under the finger tips Putrid stench on her breath Brains cascade down her chest Her soul must be purged, burnt at the pyre Human sacrifice to the metaphysical presence of Satan Dark Matter Dark Matter
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Fathom 11:17
Cradled in the arteries of life sleeping entity awaiting to rise mindless victim set on procreation a cycle of life beginning to spin as the light fades and the shadows grow a life form enters the world broken free from its imprisoning shell bound to an endless journey The yolk enters the frying pan depleted of nutrients an impurity among life clogs the lungs short of breath water to blood death to life become a new, become death entering a vast body of life Plenty of life in this world to consume, to be destroyed energy stored, waiting to transform complexity beyond fathoms pressure building autumn is neigh instinct will deliver us home instinct will deliver us home the blood begins to thin as the path is traced returning to the heart of life procreation makes fools of us all giving life to birth another

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In Greek mythology, Elpis (Ancient Greek: ἐλπίς) was the personification and spirit of hope

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released May 5, 2015

Colton Skerlak for mixing and mastering

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