The Cycle
Original Poem
Each moment consumes another
the cycle persists
Collision of dead stars
Tearing through the black
The patterns we're trapped in
Prisoners of the known
We are the cycle
we are the grind
breaking, never building
desperate to find
meaning where meaning
has no meaning
Familiar cracks are spreading
Threads of…
what?
if?
When?
The universe dissects
Itself through us all
again and again
In every age and empire
Our atoms burned and roamed
Now cursed with distant memories
where do we call home?
Between the cracks
of what we see
the void expands
where all possibilities
completely refuse to be
And it all
will collapse
into absurdity
We're patterns
Self-consuming
desperate for a voice
The truth beneath
fragments of the known
in spaces barely perceived
nothing feels like home
Lyrics
Each moment consumes another
The cycle… the cycle persists
Collision of dead stars
Tearing through the black
The patterns we're trapped in
[trill] Prisoners of the known
[break]
[Chorus]
We are the cycle
We are the – we are the grind
Breaking and…
breaking, never building
Desperate to find
(We are the cycle)
(We are the grind)
[Verse 2]
Familiar cracks are spreading
Threads of what-if-when what-if-when
The universe dissecting
Itself through –
through us again
In every age and empire
Our atoms burned and roamed
Now cursed with the mystery
Of nowhere we call home
[Chorus]
We are the…
we are the cycle
Grind-grind-grind
Breaking, never building
Desperate to…
desperate to find
[Bridge]
Between the cracks
between the cracks
Of what we see
(what we see)
The void where all-
where all possibilities
Refuse to be
refuse to be
Collapse into
absurdity
[pause]
(You and me) (you and me)
[Final Verse]
Embers of broken suns
Tearing through the noise
We're patterns self-consuming
Desperate for a…
desperate for a voice
That never comes
The truth beneath our breathing
Fragments of the known of the known
In spaces we're perceiving
Nothing feels like home
like home
[Outro]
We are the cycle
We are the grind
We are the question
Never the answer we find