Sapphire - The Afterimage

I’ll awaken

The solitude of this mountain becomes constant

The walls embrace me in their calm

Gusting winds breathe around me

My container a vessel of stillness balanced upon stone and earth

With too many stories for a single lifetime

If I blink the vessel breaks

Shattering the illusion of freedom

With the flash of an eye it’s gone

(It's gone)

I open my eyes, to stare into yours

My heart marks this time forevermore

But now I’m between a flicker of fantasy

Struggling now, struggling now to make sense of this

Belief without conviction

The world in my mind could be real, where thoughts bring solace

I listen, I listen

Over the dull song of birds

Over the sounds in the distance

Over the sirens of the lost

Silence, is what I wish for

I open my eyes, to stare into yours

My heart marks this time forevermore

But now I’m between a flicker of fantasy

Struggling now, struggling now to make sense of this

I’ve been altered by staring into infinity

I open my eyes, to stare into yours

My heart marks this time forevermore

With this I’ll be remembered, so I can die and truly be born

I smile at the thought of myself smiling again

Living a lifetime between breaths