To Ashes

To Ashes (by Jan Elgroth Talvinen)

 

Opened my eyes, something's happened

Standing in an infinite space

The world's been scorched

To ashes erased

And by all that dull silence I'm deafened

 

All the old dust of history

Now's levitating all around

What's once lost, is never found

Again, is there hope?

Not in this cemetery.

 

The moment of silence before a storm

And storm of more quietness is killing me

Can't understand how this true could be

What am I?

Why'm I being torn?

 

Everything nice's an illusion

Why's home just a wet stone

Lovers a pair of alones

...In the end

There's just separation

 

The world is not... there's just a flow

of deceit that's about to be

An endless path of agony

Lies before me...

And I'm willing to go.