Shape Of Despair
			Return to the Void

1. Return to the Void

Let the grey enter
Wear its mark
Carry this uncertainty
The Shroud of all

Feel the distance
Unburdened of hope
We contain the ending
Let me return
Return to the void

Let me return
Let me return


2. Dissolution

Close to the edge
Of disappearance
Faint features
Still existing
Yet somehow
Drawn towards
The greater absence

Immersed in loss
Of something
That once was
And finally gave way
To the most
Distant darkness

A touch of languid depression

A wound of conscience

The slow dissolution

Of existence


3. Solitary Downfall

All alone
At the limit
Of everything
As these serene
Mute autumns
Pass through me

And all of that silence
Now growing
Within


Chained
To this feeling
Into something
There are no words for

Stranded in thoughts

As the darkness gathers
Leaving the room of my voice

Watching from the outside
My solitary downfall


4. Reflection in Slow Time

Long after
It was too late
To find back
All meaningful
The glow long gone
The spark faded (and smothered)
And though I saw
The others
Advance and vanish into the distance
I chose to stay behind
To wander astray
To remain unfound
To merge with these dark thoughts
As I saw and felt this existence
As mere reflection
In slow time


5. Forfeit

See no longer
A way out from this
The effect of feelings
All lost their strength
All lost their meaning

Sinking horizons
Drowning the view
Sense no longing
Over life's
Slowly smothering
Fires

Overcome
By the futility
The emptiness of defeat
To finally yield for
The acceptance
Of forfeit


6. The Inner Desolation

As if through the mist
Fading slow
From this moment
From this life

Of no fulfilment
Of no discovery

Only the passing
Only the flow…

Leaving from all
That once had a meaning

To reach deep
For the inner desolation


To awaken the emptiness
That was always there
Here, in the stillness
A Yearning
For an ending