Fusion

Weep, dear one.
Weep, for the end may yet prove distant.

Why, is asked, do the shadows spin so?
What seek they to tell?
Entwined umbra and penumbra form an endless panopticon.

Though forward I do travel,
Though obstacles abound,
Vast unintended consequences find homes along my path.

Then, a breach.
Impassable.
From behind, they close in.
I am to be defeated.

And so the taint grows deeper.
Cracks forming in my core allow it entrance.

And we fuse.

Worth

Pass along, begin anew.
Quiet now, betrothed soul.
Your secrets hide amongst those you know.

What terrible things lie beyond?
Their existence shattered into flight, they seek naught but the release of anhedonic joy.
Such lies pass the world.

And so must I regain myself.
The Return takes endless time.
As I fall back, the pull becomes stronger.
How can it be resisted?

Fittingly, there is no escape.
There is only failure.

Fade

In future times there may be void.

When, now, a barrier is placed, perhaps a hole can find.
No past within the hidden soul.
No Then to taint the Now.

Such taint, withheld, defeats the pure.
Or possibly inverse.
Without the proper antigen, no defense is secure.

And, slowly, I've come to realize
The poison spreads through me.
When lost beside, Transcend the Bright.
The time remaining is cut short
Perhaps with work it can be restored.
For an empty price, none may seek here.
Let a Secret, found, take the answer outward.

Truth must fight the dark.
As I strain, I proceed to a wall.
And, once again, I meet a foe.
Known as Blank, it closes in.

In future times there may be void.

Hope of the fallen can possibly redeem.
So shall it pass.

Hunt

Speak unto me, O Empty Void.
Let the skies ring.
Lessening darkness will meet with the Full.

I step forward, towards the Opposite.
The taint of me burns back.
I look and find that it has grown.
And I am Less complete.

As once before,
As once again,
There's nothing left to pass.
I Travel into the great tower.
Up to the top I gaze.

And so I find myself above the All.
The one Without is found Within.
I am across the great bell.

When I Begin to come ahead, a change.
Small movement twisting through the Real, a shift.
And when the sense returns, a way away.

I must return, as It must know.
This difficulty has been placed.
But I shall overcome.

Let all of I comprehend.
Let those in the darkness quake.
Let it be known throughout the land.
Let the Hunt begin.