In Hell as on Earth - Cryptodira

With essence cast aside

Appearances are everything

In hell, as on earth

Appearances are everything

In hell, as on earth

Conviction becomes a heavy burden

Conversation becomes superficial

Happiness becomes traced in fragile marks;

The potential of its erasure is its only lasting reality

Like grasping foam, we lose the sight of happiness

When we mechanically produce it and pull it too close

In hell, as on earth, we addictively pull warmth too close and burn

In hell, as on earth, we accumulate suffering with the same colonizing logic;

Always, it is developing unevenly, enveloping totally/totality

In hell, as now on earth, we burn within the very valences

Which, at an aesthetic distance, once constituted the Aura