Beyond the Sleepless Aether (2025) Symbiotic Growth 🇨🇦 Canada

Lay down in the grass
Close your mind to everything

There it stood like stone in the fog
A steeple of the golden age
Once a place of peace for misery
Now stands rotten and overgrown

Vines reach for sky
grabbing for light
Trying to rewrite the past

In the light of an endless sunset
It shows itself to me
Is it another work of fiction
Or an alternate reality

A giant flash of light
Creating lines
Spliting reality
Revealing multiverse
A world reversed
Nothing will ever be the same

Kneel before thee, the old Wolves spoke,
Voices in my mind
Without a lick of the tongue
Oh forest spirit, great one, help us reclaim,
Greed & Industry has come

Consuming land, devouring everything
Tendrils of hatred consume us once more
Forged to protect every living thing
I feel the anger
Taking over my mind

A plague of ash, a storm of embers
Birthing clouds of poisonous soot
Decay and Rot; logs of timBER
Destroying the homes of the earth
Homes of the earth}

The culling of ancient ones
We must retake the promised land
Retake the forest, mother of earth

The absence of light
Poisonous clouds showing promise of Rain
Foreshadowing plight
Culling the spirits of this earthly plane
What can we do
Stop the machine before it's too late
Using this curse
To make industry fall to it's knees

Hope you feel good now
Eviscerating forest spirits
Now up in smoke
And a trail of worms
The hatred takes us over
Oh nameless one of rage and hate
Pass on in peace and bear us no hatred
With our lives we protect the land until we die

And as smoke escapes his lips
The vision he projects
A line of sight made for my eyes
I can see it all

I see the disease
They fall to their knees

With destruction through flame
A land lost to greed
Must be reclaimed
Before we lose our way

As I awaken, lucid dreams
The ancients whisper to me
Heed my warning,
This was not a dream
But a vision of the past
Of one we must not repeat

There is a winding road
lined with trees of oak
O' willows speak to me
underneath the blood soaked sea
a sky stained red
Like a song it calls to the dead
The lycanthropic man prays, full moon
flesh it tears, in nights shade it looms
A lost child
adorned in white
Skin cloaked by its past life
Made its home in the middle of the road
Awaiting the stranger
A Nightmare bestowed

Of ash and ember
From sky, meets ground
The unending nightmare
A fear renowned

In the void he sleeps
In dreams he seeks
To awaken from slumber
In endless reality

In the darkness he prevails
In shadows he sits still
In light he's nowhere be found
A home he's made underground

Lurking and lurking and lurking
He's shifting through the night
He's lurking and lurking and lurking

A lust for blood, his appetite
A lust for blood
For blood he prays
And For blood he dies

Along the moonlit path
Exhausted breathing
Weak legs and damaged head
For death I am cheating

In this locked room I pray to god
A sick game played on us
Brash choices made to gain some relief
A cost shaded in disbelief

When will this end
I've suffered so much
A constant
Twisting and turning and shifting
Through the multiverse

And I've had enough
Through the endless doorways
To endless dreams
I've given up

Through the passage way
A step into sand
The dry hot air
Embraces my face

The Sweeping spirals
Sit Restlessly
Among the halcyon
horizon

Forever, endlessly

The sand in my eyes
The grit in my teeth
A land of liquid nothing
Envelops the scene

Beneath the swollen blue sky
No clouds embrace
Only dry desert Sun
Sits in their place

It stares me down
It slows my pace

The blistering sands recede my skin
The scorpions tail raises in warning
The ever turning wall of sand
Rolls continuously towards me

And here they come
The wavering visions
A mirage come to life
A true hallucination

The whipping wind
Sculpts this desert plain
Sandstone arches
Are All that remain

Whispering winds speak to me
The story unclear
An ancient secret within the sands
Unheard for centuries
Am I the chosen one
Am I the Savior
To the end of the world
The prophet of our damnation
The one to save us all

Its all in my mind

In the sweltering heat
Shade cast aside
Only shadows of vultures lie
Pyramids point towards the sky

A cold breeze touches my skin
The night sky slowly seeps in
Gripping me with it's frozen hand
Instilling frost on the land

Echoes of past and future-
like Oceans breathing life-
straight into my fragile mind, I--
see beyond the veil, death greets me
with psalms of a forgotten time

Now let me go
Drifting away. far away
No more pain, or mortal coils
My consciousness erodes
Decaying time
Death's eternal veil covers my eyes.

Whispering winds speak to me
The story unclear
An ancient secret within the sands
Unheard for centuries
Am I the chosen one
Am I the Savior
To the end of the world
The prophet of our damnation
The one to save us all

The one to save us all!

As I sit within the stars
Enveloped by the cosmos
The earth calls back to me
Begging for attention
A barren waste sits
Polluted, days past
Lost within the light of changing time
No time place in time lasts

I've seen past the black
Void
Through its darkened veil
A series of time and places
all intertwined

As I travel through the gates
And pass through its many faces
A vast green world turned white
With a flip of a switch

A kaleidoscope
Of flashing scenes
An ever-moving picture paints
The in between

The world preordained to laws on the next
In the endless knot we dance frantically
Forever Searching for the meaning to life
A show of melancholic pageantry

What is this world
what does it want with me
A feeling of loss
Ready to pay the fee

If I we're to die
would everything stay the same
So what does it matter

In these parallel settings
I contemplate my life
Is my existence for naught
A null point in time
Useless to resist
I should just accept my fate

Isolation
Alone but all together
The feeling of creation
Loneliness and desertion

Up above, while they look down below
You can't burn yourself, to keep the others 77warm

A path of self righteous thinking
The issue is somebody else
A tightness in my breathing
I feel so alone

They pretend like they see me
A ghost like noone else
Sometimes I feel like heaving
And crying for help

Judgement, the boundless feeling
A heart thats lost home
There is no place for healing
Nobody knows

Desolation
The anger that builds within me
A flame that cannot be contained
Oh ire and endless fury
The rage that's always been
Smouldering ashes into flame
Rising up internally
The anger rages in me

I would trade all these thoughts for sleep
The Restless nights , I hunger for dreams
The constant pumping of my heart
A sinking feeling that it's falling apart

And If I were to never breathe again
What a relief it would be, to meet my end

A constant worry of leaving behind
A life that to others might seem fine
The ones I love few and far between
An end unforseen

Through constellations
So Far beyond the flesh
Past the gates and through the aether
To the planes of death
The cold stone pathway, Lined of moss
Walks me through all these lives I've lost
Past the realms and the in between
Please release me of all I've seen

The empty space through the knot
Of the hangman's noose
Shimmers and calls to me
Visions of life
break and shatter
Loosing all reality
Am I where Ive always been
On the cusp of eternity
Taking the final step
Embracing the eternal sleep

The final curtain once risen, falls
The end of this journey, the sleep~ now calls
The flickering flame in my soul, now fades
Towards eternal somnium, letting go