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Paragon

by GREGORY

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1.
Saving Grace 05:10
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“Perhaps your fear of passing judgment on me is greater than mine in receiving it.” - Giordano Bruno 1600 AD A day without a yesterday Years fade inside you I chanced to look another way And now I cannot find you Do you understand that this moment Will ripple forever? Can I touch you from a distance? You are my anomaly I did not foresee this Viral Quarantine in time I never dreamt of being so alone 2020 hindsight in emotional isolation I miss you, my saving grace Local conditions overwhelm your global perspective Zero Sum initiated Nothing I say here now Can take the blame for our trajectory Freewill disavowed Am I unique in that I never had imaginary friends? The alluring charm of make-believe Tricked the flock but I just could not pretend With an overwhelming sense of passion A brutal dyssynchrony And solitude extremis Untwinning our helicity The fear of loss is complicated And hope is never sated Reality in suspension Fondling fantasies Vying for attention Foreplay with mythology CP Symmetry Violation "A day without a yesterday" Now you interest me Asymptomatic reverie The bitter bouquet of entropy Like an aromatic cancer Wafts through to a waiting end Toss a penny down the wishing gravity well Some things you never can foretell Remorse as a harbinger of conviction Leaves a most unsettled resolve Replete of salvations of any kind Indeed, 'twould be a bitter taste For an unsuspecting soul to swallow On any good day The PRECESSION of Love Coupled with the OBLIQUITY of Faith Begets the ECCENTRICITY of our union Live apart or grow together Forgo the miserable in between Stagnation trends toward death forever So live life Extreme! Progressive imperfection You are my saving grace Memories fade by the square of the distance in time Reduced and simplified My saving grace
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Permission to Forget (remix) 05:57
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Now I remember wanting to forget Those golden times with you Our temporary immortality Should I ever pass this way again I will remember this day Sunlight glistening through the windshield speeding by Our eyes alight in laughter We were immortal Endless opportunities spread out before us As the limbs of an aging lover We turned away And now I sit alone Wondering when I settled for this Calculated solitude - safe and confined Impervious to new pain - no fear of loss impending And now I know what little I control is worthless alone I’m lost in these latitudes - no formal restrictions Complementary platitudes of grand indecision Now I believe that memory Is all we have and all we’ll ever need To relive the moment time and time again Reiterated feeling – endure it again? Can you come out and play Before this day slips away? Whatever you want from me is yours for the taking No social complications, just memories in the making I was begging for permission I needed you to show me All of life’s temptations You took me inside Now I’m seeking permission Before I confide in you Perhaps some things are better left denied Encircled by our best friends - laughing until we cried Then we turned away and said goodbye for the last time As best I can recall We truly lived in the golden age Love and life were almost free I remember the reflections in your eyes full of possibilities I was honored that you would even listen to someone like me Now in total resignation, I pull the blinds I don’t need this anymore
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For a Time 03:57
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For a time We had all the time in the world I’m not sure where to begin A string of brief encounters Random harmonies Conjoined equilibrium Waxing Divine Through time Inline with you It seems a piece of some devil broke off today Snapping reality Splintering me There and then alone For a time We had all the time in the world Something vast assessing me Cognitive prowess, incarnate Subtle genius hidden in clear sight There is nothing colder than absence Nothing with less worth Creating alone Like an Angel drowning in Deep Time Maximally extended solutions Quieting memories Enter stillness forever And so begins the end For a time We had all the time in the world And so began the end Decision or instinct A course is set From that, everything follows We thought we had all the time in the world An Angel drowning in Deep Time We thought we had all the time in the world And so began the end Enter stillness forever ...incoming transmission from Sputnik 1... [ the first to jump into the VOID ]
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SATORI epilogue: Created Space 05:42
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The nearer we get the closer we become increasing the pull like gravitation Through all Degrees of Emotional Freedom we prefer not to be in isolation Unique points of measure in finite space cannot define how we feel Virtual emotions popping in and out of existence and what remains is Real To understand your curvatures to occupy your same Inertial Frame I have come And from these undefined states of transition quantified elation The amalgamated needs of dust a reality apart from all others locked in orbit with you as everything else expands away Emerging from solitary chaos embedded with sparks of emotion through vastness like stars upon stars we are born of Love I am caught in your swirling, emotional well dual jets of lust expanding our shining tell an accretion disc of circling need In this created space we are defined by you time just for me lost inside you My only fear is the existential wasting of Time And when I think about it deeply everything else is ill-defined in comparison to you Our future clear as memory a sum over many solutions In this created space we love with no preferential vector defined one chance for absolution as we are one There is a far greater chance that I never should have found you derivating the attractive slopes between us Open this space for me design a chance for us to grow making space for me The nearer we get the closer we become
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Trace of Contact 06:32
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Time yields a subtle clearness to things wished forgotten as hope builds in utter stillness Do you remember contact with me? And then it came to me this abject understanding that you waited for me I have learned things I have changed I have forgotten things I have changed As reams of experience form the fabric of our lives the communal interaction for which we all strive has been pruned from a sick society and we have changed emotional improprieties our imperatives rearranged We are a species estranged without a Trace of Contact And then it came to me abject understanding that you waited for me The world is flowing at pandemic speed and we don't know what to believe Opinions expressed are as bending reeds for those willing to be deceived Vacant rooms feel larger in darkness just as solitude exaggerates loneliness This volume of Reality unfolding a rupture leaking emptiness and longing It is the fear known to all things alone We have but one chance We have learned and we have changed Through the viral happenstance of separation we are tamed but are we truly SAVED? I am no angel not your savior but I can read the signs Quarantines and isolation conspiracies for weak minds A Social Distancing nightmare never so deprived Is there anybody out there Everyone hiding alone inside? we wear the MASK of the age concealing conciliatory RAGE intellect encaged an endgame engaged Blameless, I forgo pride striving to persist (in here) Alone and confined a prisoner despite all of you I miss (and I fear) no ANGEL am I no DEVIL Inside like the VIRUS, I resist (it is clear) Have no fear I AM here searching for a Trace of Contact with you dedicated to everyone we lost to the VIRUS in 2020
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Baryogenesis 05:10
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Regale me with the rest of your life You can avail your mind ‘Caught in the act’ in Eden Creation from annihilation Begin Time A risk oriented polymath To mind the coming age With a spiritual kind of polygraph Confirming beliefs can be simply rearranged Now I contemplate this Winter of the Mind Through suffocating silence in the Void left behind you Bones should stay buried in the graveyard It's hard to face the fact that we are merely debris You had better gather all your weapons One in a billion chance to be We are the Ash of Creation Come and See Beneath the ashes of their lives suspended in my sky I have a day of rest as the heavens burn down all around me And here I AM The Embers of Eden in particle decay Continents on fire as we shop another day It's so surreal It’s hard to imagine but there was nothing forever and ever Then there was everything Annihilation Disintegration the entire Universe was almost cancelled You will no longer find me in your past collapsing Light Cones just to See There was only a one in a billion Chance that this would be We are the Ash of Creation Baryogenesis We are one in a billion Almost the end of everything We survived the antimatter Dream
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Claim 04:27
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Hide and Seek with demigods processing seconds to love you Still praying for favored odds with quick tricksters feeding among you Come and see I jab this stake in my claim even as I remember nothing conclusive remains Existence dismembered A way to replay everything and most of it remains unclaimed A way to capture the essence of things The silent Remains No one knows all This, I claim We are stronger together Before the fall This, I claim We Are One Forever I am claimed as are you each by the other Claimed, as am I And I proclaim that apart from all others I claim you I am claimed as are you each by the other You are claimed as am I One and Another A recipe for catastrophe prematurely deconstructed into tattered lore so alas, is no more.

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recorded in isolation - 2020

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released March 1, 2020

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GREGORY Las Vegas, Nevada

1987: The PHARAOH Project – Birth Rights
1988: BEHOLDER
2008: PRESCIENT – Emergence
2011: Proof of Concept
2011: Light Horizon w/ Adam McLean
2012: Birth Rights (pt 2) w/ Adam
2012: VIVID DOMINION
2012: The Imperative w/ Adam
2013: The End of Religion w/ Adam
2013: Apostasy
2014: Dead River Scriptures
2014: in a matter of days w/ Jordan Miller
2014: The Forge of Gods w/ Adam ... more

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