Become the Fear

Burned and consumed, like ashen memories
 Pale and distant, seems the world
 Like freezing arctic wind, the blade of loss cuts through
 To find myself again, I cannot comprehend
 To walk this road, the path of desolation
 Far from the sun, cold isolation
 Abandoned here, in silent apathy
 By all those, once so endeared
 To understand, I must become the fear
 To prevail, I must become the enemy
 To reclaim dominion, surrender to defeat
 To rise to elation, I must fall into despair
 Crushed by the weight of an impending failure I endeavor in vain toward the fading sun
 Paralyzed in this aphotic void
 My strength it is lost, in the absence of light
 Before my eyes, as if frozen in time
 The rise and fall of everything once defined
 To acquiesce to the arms of negation
 Denial at once my comfort and my shame
 The dark that once seemed so false, so distant
 Now engulfs every aspect of my sight
 The understanding lies entwined with all I fear I am the enemy
 I am the light Accept that forever, is a mere perception
 Relative to our own minds
 Every moment elapsed is an eternity In the Shadow of our fleeting time
 Those once beloved, will fade to dust
 Nothing sacred, cannot be undone
 To overcome is to embrace our fear
 To forge ahead, and walk alone
 Reclaim desire, to see the unknown
 Abandon time, erase eternity
 Strength is attained by the fire of yearning
 The path to acceptance is a journey without end