World

I see all of the darkness and all of the light They can crash and collude, but blood-red is the night I see all of the stars as they were meant to be I can look to the past, million moments to see In the thousands of years, in the thousands of lights In the billions of specks that still make up the night So a thousand thousand nothings seep their way into our hearts And the chaos of reality complacently takes part Lo! A grand design composed of all I give to take away Be one, be all, be lost and fall from your own frigid fray Sensation scrambles to deny Emotions still will empathize Perceptions still perceive the night The absence, inmost, in the light The end begins And I am forced to concede That all I ever knew was but a dream: A butterfly, mechanic, flitting over what the truth can never perceive Imagination, chaos, dream and then we know that surely, were we only but to know Then there would end the will that has made all of mankind so Free. The lies can lead to what we knew The loves can bleed to what we knew The hearts can heave in what we knew But I am free, and I am new