Flaming into the darkness

the ties that bind me here

grow weak

sinking into the deep

The light grows ever fainter

as I fall into the familiar and comforting

folds of oblivion

Save yourself

Let this go

Your words bring nothing now

Sneaking glimpses of what once was

what could have been

what seems so lost now

I rise above the distant past

the structures that I built

now fall

around me

Sealing the fates of millions

The light of hope consumed

by rubble and dust

Bring faith once lost to save us

from the gods we abandoned

Graven images scattered in the wind

to the ends of the earth

Faltering footsteps

stumbling

to the end of time