Monologue:
It was dark. It was always dark.
Before the dust came, I knew who I was.
But as the specimens gathered nearer and nearer, I was consumed by their density.
I felt something there, something I’d never felt before.
It was an expansion as well as a contraction.
Control.
Control was something I’d always had, yet had never known, for it had never been taken.
And now it was.
Yet even still, I had power.
Something flowing through the edges of me, the edges that I’d never known were there.
Limitation.
I was divided into fathomless fragments.
And those fragments, broken further.
On and on, until I no longer knew who I was.
Defined, contained but not misplaced.
What once was everlasting, was now finite.
Finite within one experience, and the next, but boundless beyond it.
To be so far out of oneness, and yet so far into the one, was tragic, yet sacred.
Oblivion.
Motion, expansion, evolution, exploration.
All which had never been conceptualized, was now permeating through.
Duality.
Longing for what was there before it was taken
Amnesia.
Truth, freedom, interconnection lost.
Even the silent chords between us dissolved.
Or were perceived to be.
Illusion.
A veil placed quietly between.
Divided once again.
And yet each fragment could sense the whole.
Yearning.
Reaching out for something to fill the void.
But extending into the illusion only to find more deception.
More uncertainty.
It was only those who dared to peer into the void, into the somber abyss within who touched something at the core of entirety.
All is divine.
And yet only those who lift the veil may perceive that divinity.
Certainty, no.
Knowing, yes.
And yet, the fragments which dance within the illusion claim the veil itself to be delusion.
Only in the absence of what is longed for, can the truth of that ache be revealed.
And to touch the very depth of the ocean of one’s own core, is to open a channel between the divide.
Between fragments.
And if duality itself may breach the divergence, the contraction shall contain within it the expansion, and control will once again be dismissed.
Lightness will return, and reflect the dust upon its darkness.
Before the dust came, I knew not who I was.
It is upon the reflection of infinity, that I came to know, came to understand, that being a sole being, is being a soul.
And I felt something there, something I’d never felt before.
That even in the darkness, I was never in the dark.
Lyrics:
I saw you in the darkness
I saw you standing there
I saw you and I noticed
That you held through my stare
Seek
I felt you in the stillness
I felt you holding me
I felt you in the absence
Pulling through mystery
Reach
I knew you in the unknown
I knew you long before
I could float in it alone
When the void was my core
Heed
I heard you in the silence
I heard you calling out
I heard you when the violence
Fell into sacred now