Rebirth from Anamnesis by Ascend The Helix

This is not the world I…

…not the world I recall


The nature of this reality

Devoid of all wonted semblance

Cold and desolate


Unlike the world written in memory

Unfamiliar, every element

In form but not in truth

Not in truth


From the inside out

The flood rises

Sensory inundation

Every distant sight and sound

Uncommitted to memory

Pummeling under, taking

The tide clenching

From the inside out

The flood is rising

The flood is rising


The return

The return to my nascency

To the first

Moment present


Overcome

Overcome by the agony

Air filling lungs

Light blinding


Can’t discern

Can’t discern self from ascendant

Like a phantom

Skin missing


A fear so primordial

Surreal, the utter helplessness

Dismay

My own survival unclear

Severed from safe haven


From the inside out

The flood rises

Sensory inundation

Every distant sight and sound

Uncommitted to memory

Pummeling under, taking

The tide clenching

From the inside out

The flood is rising

The flood is rising


Could this be

Be my end

No reprieve

Seen ahead


Brazen, blinding

Every light upon me

Repulsive, every bitter taste upon my lips

Frigid the air that

Fills my lungs and bites my skin

Shrill and beckoning

Every sound that meets my ears


A fear so primordial

Surreal, the utter helplessness

Dismay

My own survival unclear

Severed from safe haven


A fear I cannot recall

Surreal, the sheer defenselessness

Dismay

My own survival unclear

Severed from safe haven


The floodgates have opened

Fear has overtaken

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