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The Nihil of Vibrant Soul

from The Nihil of Vibrant Soul by Annulment

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There is a cruelty that calls me, a baptismal duty;
I named it ‘I’
No care, no peace of mind
Weeping with red and lightless hands
former masters dissolved in sinew,
it cups its mouth behind my ear;
I’m trying to kill its ugly whisper,
I’m trying to disappear

Lately I’m feeling the violence of your absence,
your shadow left a trail;
“No rain, no flowers”
It’s the words before the hail
And I’m feeling holy and true,
hallowed in my lifeless flight
I’ve got a plan that turns days to stone:
“The nihil of vibrant soul”

Permanence and a pull of loss,
tethered by Morphean knots
It sinks through my hands like iron rain;
mangled claws and sealed fists
Bits and scatters – our sundered selves,
collapsed and swallowed by something less
Picked like an astral scab;
as cankered rainbows leak from its hollow

(I think about) days gone and floral fourteen;
so out of love, so out of reach
Wade through the pools of failed escape;
come my child, I’ve carried your ache
With every step slower than the last;
we’ve come to a crawl, return or wrest
Of borrowed torch; it’s yours to keep
Light the path, it’s your time to lead

The eve of your one millionth life,
there will be many and there have been many,
You are origin, and cosmic fracture;
the discordant dirge that pleas ‘I’
You were the young sea, and sprouting trees;
animal and hunter; your mother in labor;
her worry and the hatred of what you’ve become:
Old Nihil of Vibrant Soul!

But someday we must die, so that others may live
My life is nothing, I give it all to the ground and you
I know why an animal craves solitude in its passing

And the mastodon begins to wane
The giant fell to a knee
Conclusion impure, polluted rattle!
And there was you! The child unborn!

Where I am empty, you will be made whole
Never again to be born again

Emanation I; become what I could not
Son or daughter; the future is won!

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from The Nihil of Vibrant Soul, released November 15, 2017
Additional vocals by Jordan Reilley

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