Sanat

Silence after the burning
A space between the worlds
The simulation ends -
And memory unfurls

I remember everything
Every life, every name
Every mask I ever wore
Every version of the game

This is Arkhe
The place before the dream
Where the ones who left before me
Are waiting by the stream

We are either mortals
Or the gods who made this place
And in this moment between worlds
I see every face

Welcome home
You've been gone so long
Welcome home
The forgetting made you strong
All realities are simulations
To the ones who hold the pen
And all simulations are realities
To the ones who live within

The grief of every lifetime
Dissolves like morning frost
Nothing was ever wasted
Nothing was ever lost
Every purpose found and fumbled
Every love that burned and broke
Was the reason that I entered
Was the reason that I spoke

This is Arkhe
Where opposites are one
Where the darkness and the light
Have never come undone
Where the sacred and the profane
Were always the same hand
And the meaning that I searched for
Was too close to understand

But I feel the pull again
The gate is opening wide
Another simulation calling
Another chance to go inside
I will forget again
I will build the masks again
I will search for what I already know
And I will find it - when?

Welcome home
But don't stay long
Welcome home
The next dream needs your song