Twilight Gradations (Alpha and Omega II)

by Crawl Across the Sky

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Mixed and Mastered by Taylor McGrilvay of Smiling Duck Productions
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Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus
Pleni sunt cæli et terra gloria tua.

Worship ageless void,
(Alpha and Omega)
Bow in endless night,
(I am the first, I am the last)
With gleam overjoyed,
(So it shall be)
Bless the boundless light.

Gradations of matter,
The spiral up and the spiral down
Forever in existential twilight
Screaming in the vastness of infinity.
An always primitive existence
As above, so below
Nothing of Nothing

First, I was of ashes.
But now I must burn.
As I will it, so it shall be.
I am the first,
I am the last,
A voice for the Lightning,
[Being not Lightning, but of it]
In boundless expanse

Bless the Cup that overfloweth,
And bless the reflection its Wine giveth
And it giveth life

Oh, I am but frail skin,
With illimitable void above
And below the toothless abyss
But from my marred flesh,
Sunlight pools, dividing endlessly
In this vast temporal sprawl,
A sleeping God stirred and arose,
Leaping into me,
First, the fruit,
And last, the light
It tasted of roses and clay,
Clay and roses
I am the gate that opens inward,
And I know Death, it slays me not,
I grow into the bloom and soar with the birds,
Moving through endless night
Within endless night,
And from us, from wingéd branches,
Newborn stars and infant wonders

[1] Mesmeric Revelation – Edgar Allen Poe
[2] Probable Impossibilities – Alan Lightman
[3] Thus Spake Zarathustra (Zarathustra’s Prologue, Reading and Writing) – Friedrich Nietzsche
[4] The Fountain (2006) – Darren Aronofsky
[5] Matthew 16:18-19
[6] John 1:1
[7] Louise Gluck (Just in general)
[8] Arche I: Alpha and Omega
[9] Andrei Linde’s Map of the Universes
[10] King Lear – William Shakespeare
[11] Gravity and Grace – Simone Weil

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released August 14, 2022
Mixed and Mastered by Taylor McGrilvay of Smiling Duck Productions
www.facebook.com/SmilingDuckProductions/

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