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Aglow From The Chasm

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AGLOW FROM THE CHASM
Stephen Charouhas

All eyes shut
Tightly sealed with thread
were those of our walls.
Arms were outstretched,
frantic and seeking
a solace or another's hand.

We were led through a blackened hall
the air still as though it had drowned.
Calling out we only heard ourselves,
our voices lost in the dark.
Nothing upon nothing became a noise ever enclosing.
We were stifled and silenced
and never knew it was so.

The hall was a scorched throat
trailing down to a charred promise.
A false asylum
our limbs were bound by a lie.
We never could have known.

Resigned to the dark we let the throat swallow.
The noise grew into a pulse.

Silent, shrouded in ash,
we lay still on the ground
still warm from the collapse.
Surrounded by the calloused void
the hollow would become our catacomb,
enshrined in ember.

When from the dark there came a breath
a cold wind cut through the black.
We felt it brush away the shroud
as our lungs filled with air.

A glint of light appeared
a single ray that severed the drowning darkness.
Aglow from the chasm.

With our hands reaching out
we grasped the scorched ground
and crawled towards the light.

Through the clearing
there was still a blur.
A veil through which we saw
no define.

We found ourselves
in a world familiar,
but knew not who we were.
If the collapse had taken our past
what was to come?
All but nothing would be the same
We came from an end.
All that we had been
was burnt away
leaving us forged from flame.
We came from an end.
Forever were we changed.

The sun at last illuminated
our sunken eyes
and we would create anew.
As the firebird had been reborn from demise
we'd rise from the ashes of ourselves.

Everything of the old,
the mind of then,
all that was known
was shed and cast away
when it was burning to the ground.
The change will come
the rotation of the self
awaits those who take their past,
take all they were
and burn it to the ground.

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from the Elephant Parallax, released May 1, 2010
Benigno Esau Gonzalez, David Renteria, Stephen Charouhas

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The Elephant Parallax is an eclectic band based in Los Angeles. Working on arranging complex and heavy material. The band's live performances showcase their diverse musicianship, intense energy and raw passion forged and driven by a passion for sound.

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