Lacrimae Rerum

from Nodus Tollens by Calvaire

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Wonder. The lights in the distance that I could only wonder about.
Sketching demons & monsters on my map, longing for their comforting presence.
Guarding the fringes of the abyss, forcing me to look away.
The great fantasy of different worlds, & to name them after our obsolete Gods.
Oh, I’ve abandoned you Ares!

I’ve kept you going by thoughts alone, even if I'll never see you again.
An existence constantly transfigured by failure.
Memoirs, not just nostalgia & regret.
Longing for you, like an enduring ink that never dries, changes with every gaze.

You’re a painting, as every indelible drop of my blood hits the canvas, yet the page remains mostly blank.
Perhaps this piece was never meant to be finished.
I remember it was meant, just like you, to be abandoned.
The ancient ones are just barely older than I.
The decaying fantasy of Eden, lingers beyond the endless trail of defeat.
A domesticated animal, we are fabricated as irrelevant caricatures of our forefathers.

Misguided from the start.
In Genesis, there was everything.
Now, there is nothing.
I aspire to disappear.

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from Nodus Tollens, track released June 28, 2019

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Calvaire Singapore

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.” - Cioran.

Calvaire is Iryan. Rudy. Roy. Azfar. Izuan.

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