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We were Gods
once... |
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Proud, wild,
in possession of supple
and willing human bodies. |
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We tore through life like fire through a
space station,
unburdened by gravity,
propelled by our all consuming passions. |
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For a moment we were welcomed... |
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...in the heart of chaotic rituals,... |
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...embraced by ecstatic dancers, venerated by priests. |
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In the midst of these maelstroms
an unpredicted fusion occurred. |
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Where the human and the deity were not distinguishable,
where every invocation overlapped with every other,
a living palimpsest was etched into our bodies,
burned into our beings.
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We emerged from these rites as mutations.
Aberrations who would not honor the subtle or gross laws of men, we were cast out of the
temples of brotherly love. |
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Some of us wandered the earth alone.
Stared at television sets. |
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Knew the insides of stars and quarks alike
as if they were our own minds. |
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Suffered the anxiety of separation,
the only death possible for an immortal being. |
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Some of us had been grafted together
so that we were never alone. |
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Hearts were open to us... |
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so that even as we tried to forget the inquisitions
that drove us from our home...
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...we were forced to know the minds of our
tormentors. |
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We dressed and lived
as men of the earth |
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...feeling ever more transparent. |
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Shells to house the void of creation,... |
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...unable to break the gaze of eternity |
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At last we held our own rite.
A meeting for fallen Gods. |
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Only those who were unaware
of our inner deformities dared approach. |
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We used them to feed our fires
until only we remained. |
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Our songs reached into the oblivion. |
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Ghosts of our former lives... |
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...flickered before us. |
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The forest of forgotten worlds...
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...sprang to life in the midst of our dances. |
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All our sorrows,
our joys spilled out of our bodies
in a deluge that swept life away.
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The heat of our breath restored it again. |
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We wrote a new incantation
upon the husks of life and
traveled backwards through the place...
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...where the human and the deity were
undistinguishable,
where every invocation is locked in a single prism of light. |
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Now we wait
as a stillness
we wait for our time to emerge. |
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