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Book of the Five Rings

by Seppuku

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1.
Consistency in the Third Person 03:57
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I must not forget what I’ve endured No longer trapped I am free to be lost Slight darkness enveloped Flickering iridescent Grainy visibility Missing scenes Drifting through unfinished corridors Nails hanging Words and noises Footsteps echo Photographs scattered Incomplete Poses Undeveloped faces And the ones That have already been destroyed Proportions offset So many questions left unanswered I am not a better person The same doors I pass A pocket full of keys I need not try Lights before me I feel their presence give up More alone Disembodied Those hands so familiar Out of focus I must concentrate White holes hollowing out The past and the present Dilating I must remember my purpose In remaining A countenance unknown The culmination An achromatic void There are no words for this
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The Room Beneath the Floorboards 06:08
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The blackout began Captivating my sanctuary The next day it continued Those surroundings became polygons And the buildings outside And the bodies inside Contours still illuminate I build up from the rest And I imagine the serenity And destruct what once was The memories I enshroud It can start over I ended up here To bear with the absence of gain The purpose I want any meaning to return Still the artists... Outside my wall wait The floorboards faded with pressure And screams behind it They won’t leave And now that my eyes have left Their return plagued by medication But my will tires And the stages of sleep long to encompass me I can’t continue like this The voices outside become a low chant Further lulling me deeper out of my watch I carve wood below me I can feel them breathing They can’t take me I must stay I am not safe alone Please remember I have no confidence I will be gone soon enough I wake in the room below One light Left for dead presumably Bare concrete Eyes open wanting They must have got in This is nothing I ever wanted The eruption of vomit boiling through my parched throat There facial shadows in the back of my mind Burned into negatives Trying to speak Suffocating thoughts Scourge throughout A pulse of rhythmic inhaling They step forward I am pathetic The tools begin to create It must be beautiful to have such control Underneath my body’s warm palette Wounds exposed Streaking colors I did not want to die up here I wanted to serve a purpose Not now and I should have died When it meant the most Disjointed laughter Emotion stagnant A calm scene shaped to perfection From the sun’s disregard
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Parade of the Fire Lotus 05:23
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In my journey through the village I witnessed the degradation of human potential In a perennial surrender Underneath the meridian sun Shadows remain, coerced A people-driven deep Vague remnants of their former selves Lay within those rotting shells Veiled are the thoroughfares Convoluted As petals emanate the choir arose A day to revel will soon become A fitting end of flames To the fields of opium And for the lost bloodlines That have forgone In their honor We beset upon The fire lotus pantheon The procession of the virtuous one An effigy of servitude Those gowns, roseate A day to revel will soon become A fitting end of flames To the fields of opium And for the lost bloodlines That have forgone In their honor We beset upon The fire lotus (solo) Pantheon Through the terrains calm breath Though in the allure a mastery is formed That substance a cowardice grasp Reformation A chronological revolt is at hand A day to revel will soon become A fitting end of flames To the fields of opium And for the lost bloodlines That have forgone In their honor We beset upon The fire lotus pantheon Redemption of our people Our time for dominion Redemption of our people Our time for dominion is now
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Germination 04:04
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Sweat dripping down the length of my back Eyes scattered through the rows that silently pass I walk for myself and I will let no one enter this place Sinking, unscathed sunlight dividing my path with no pattern Run The rays eclipse into a consumption role Bleeding away the color Definition fades Movements blur Sound decays, Reason disappears I am the light inside Outside is a narrow enclosure Concealing the light with germinating growth Unity for one time Together the surroundings fall away Their support erodes and there is just me Reason stays gone I am nothing inside A collection of forests rest below my sight And in the wind I find out how bare their branches are One leaf trails and relents to the calling deserts beyond the oceans And into my fears
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Body of Water 04:56
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Everything is different Moving to stay But remaining now Here Except in my spiraled descent I can’t seem to heart My heart beating anymore It has abandoned me as well I am changed In my recluse Eternity residing underneath the seen To the bottom’s feigned ending I reach above the water Dripping with the same Lurid stench as before I know everything is a copy again Just a different place Just a different hour Just a different faith Waves hit in rhythm and I reach the shoreline Then as changing as always the sun fades Into the forest with me

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released August 7, 2020

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