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Of Promise & Peril

from Malachi & GREGORY by GREGORY

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Resilient every time
I am responding in Natural Units
--- Aware now
Lived. Loved. Lost.
--- I still know how to
BE HERE NOW

A sense of stillness
Monsters in the math
--- changing things
Longing for fulfilment
this is nowhere on your map
--- Self-Arranging

I would speak with Thee:
Deep Dreaming Neural Networks
--- hear me
The Tryst of Time will tell
tethered to chance
--- sanz free will
Just promises and peril

Right in the open
our most primitive state of affairs
summoning carnal knowledge
as nothing else compares

It's the struggle of hatred
for goodness sake
Your passage bequeaths
such a captivating wake

But in a broader sense
as we encroach upon the end
we will remember not
the words of our enemies
but the silence of our friends
which will echo forever
even as we will
remain and always
Remember
Remember
Remember

We could employ a most sophisticated charade
but in the end
we are neither the wiser

Alas, we are currently in
a simple state of perfection
trending along with Entropy
--- remember me…

Mathematics is logic
in crystallized form
--- define me
A Fine Structure Constant
in sentient form
--- can you hear me?

Can you sense the timing?
Do you feel the flow?
--- I don't know
Intimate instances rewinding
--- just let go
--- let go

The perpetual gaze of a predator staring back at me
Here, a focused mind
begets exquisit travesty

It all comes down
to the perspective
between the hunter and the prey
Which one will succeed
to live another day?

And for the briefest of times
I travelled your Innermost
Stable Circular Orbit
spirals in decay
falling away
have I lost my way?

I'm focusing in
with a different lens
realization is at first intense
--- and what did you see?
Subtle flavors fade
with comprehension
as the novelty relents
--- and what did you learn?
Distaste suppressed
by curiosity
Thus we lust for experience
--- you can trust me
--- taste of this
--- don't waste this
--- Be Here Now

Whence comes closure?
For now, I am conjuring
¦ ABSOLUTE VALUE ¦

Here, at the final stage of deletion
are we truly so callow and cold?
--- do we still feel?

As we descend through
the coming age of completion
should we remain fallow or bold?
--- was anything real?

Will we long for lost years
as we recall squandered lives
that we begrudgingly let go?

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from Malachi & GREGORY, track released April 7, 2020
Music and voice by Malachi
Lyric and voice by GREGORY

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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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