Teterumtyagorah from Black by Red Ankh

You must be broken to be mended
Crushed to become pliant
You are broken, in need of repair
Sustaining on self-reflection

Where has it gone, your lust for life?
Where once passion bloomed, cold, so cold
Cycles of renewal now circles run with blindfold on
Avoidant, hoarding, paranoid preservation

You must feel pain
To grow out of this mundane apathy
You must feel pain
To be free of a void perspective
You know the strain
A thing far worse than what you now must do
Release the shame
And break free of this incomplete view

Living is struggle - negais, negais adoko [Can't, can't you see?]
All, tensions between forces - dirdez dekko misunder [begin the discomfort]
What we do is choke some and feed others - jayzee, odameh adoko [come, do you see?]
Can you not let go, let go, please come to your senses

I'm sorry, there is just no other way
I'm sorry, believe this is not vengeance
I'm sorry, if you must call it 'punishment'
We sentence merely the dead skin

The whip cracks, the husk slashed
The fruit feeds forevermore
To live is to grow, to grow is to eat
To die is to leave behind wisdom and sustenance

You must feel pain
To grow out of this mundane apathy
You must feel pain
To be free of a void perspective
You know the name
Of the beast that keeps you sleeping
Hear the chains
The clanking confines of this unlife

We can't go on like this, in perpetual numbness
This can't be all there is

This life you live is impractical unless the purpose is but to die

Kurrikom morkyax kiyabrut [desire whole destruction]
Drezyem dien wit kuvekziom [give life to lifeless creation]
Ohni rizsotlo Dien ikken dogbeg, dogaurik [and know true self is no-self, nothing]
Orktobrar, adoko tro [practice, see deeply]
Orktobrar, ray morkyauriktu [practice, be everything]
Chigorramta, zrit kruzzyot frust [I'm sorry, you must die]

Living is struggle - negais, negais adoko [Can't, can't you see?]
All, tensions between forces - dirdez dekko misunder [begin the discomfort]
What we do is choke some and feed others - jayzee, odameh adoko [come, do you see?]
Can you not let go, let go, please come to your senses

You do consult the facts, don't you? The truth that's bearing down
But if you distrust the source, just as well, you've your own tinkering faculties
You must listen to reason, intellect is what elevates our kind
But, if you won't listen to reason, surely you're moved by sentiment
Of course you grasp empathy, we social creatures, its masters
But nay? The jading, that's all right; compassion always finds a way
You must care for the good of us all, may we not start from there?
But if you've no faith in even social bindings, you must be afraid

The past survives, what we have been is not us
The fear of change is fear of life, you live, its your own death that mourns itself
The horrific fate is not to break, but to never ever ever change
So be afraid of your golden cage and face the pain it takes to fly away

Once you had hopes you had dreams, now you surrender the means
This safety is not what it seems
We can't go on like this, in perpetual numbness
This can't be all there is, break apart, forge anew, there is not, just one you

Will and action are not so far apart, we must do to want to do
Social and conscious, we are the ones who can adapt to our own values
Complacency, complicity, independence are not freedom
On the contrary, love of the journey, poise, the support to overcome

I've watched you make yourself small, so small
And the bitterness, resignation, enough for us all
This quiet, dreaming, invisible life has left you for dead
Shatter this mirror world, feed your head

None are the kind of person to change, save the ones who are changing
Social and conscious, we are the ones whose destinies are far-ranging
Comfort and routine, not our earned reward, but a couple of tools to use
On the contrary, surprise, mystery, we supremely joyous fools

Look close, what you've built is but shelter to despair
Where it waits and grows, unwieldy
There devouring all of your hopes and your dreams, poisoning
Looking glass land was built for us but not by us
Like any other prison
The way through is the way back to immanence

Gaze across your domain, tell me now what do you see
[Gaze across, what do you see]
Shimmers, long forgotten spells holding arcane lights over wasteland
[Shimmers, spells cast with shackled hands over wasteland]
Your dazzling map directs to nowhere and nothing at all
These songs, rites, but pretty ravings
You see your palace crumbling down

Kurrikom morkyax kiyabrut [desire whole destruction]
Drezyem dien wit kuvekziom [give life to lifeless creation]
Ohni rizsotlo Dien ikken dogbeg, dogaurik [and know true self is no-self, nothing]
Orktobrar, adoko tro [practice, see deeply]
Orktobrar, ray morkyauriktu [practice, be everything]
Chigorramta, zrit kruzzyot frust [I'm sorry, you must die]

And at the very end, I think of you my friend
When all is one, said and done
You'll let go of the past, lay to rest lack at last
But will you know my name?
This we, forever changed, what we once were estranged
Will you remember me?
Beyond a million stars, I hope you get that far
Come walk on through with me

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