I thought it was over. The storms were gone. The walls were high enough. No one could reach me there. Not life. Not pain. Not God. I called it peace. But it was only distance. I built an island out of silence Stone by stone Year after year Far from the noise Far from the fire Far from the wound I buried every unanswered prayer Beneath the sand And when the ocean called my name I pretended not to hear Then something broke Not the world Not the sky Me A crack appeared inside the fortress And through that wound A light entered For one impossible moment I touched the Infinite A memory older than memory A voice without words A home I had forgotten And suddenly The colors returned And suddenly My sleeping heart began to breathe Now everything hurts The silence The distance The empty rooms inside me My mind keeps screaming Go back Build the walls again Return to the island Forget what you saw Forget what you felt Forget But my soul remembers My soul remembers My soul remembers The light beyond the walls The sea beyond the island The name I had forgotten The face beneath the mask Go back! Build the walls! Forget! Forget! FORGET! I can't... I can't... I can't... Now I sit among the ruins Watching shadows move Across broken stones Nothing remains Of the person I used to be The island is broken The dream is broken The prison is broken And still The Infinite calls Part of me wants to run Part of me wants to disappear Part of me wishes I had never awakened Never remembered Never touched eternity It would have been easier So much easier Release me Release me from fear Release me from separation Release me from the prison of myself Take what is false Leave only what is real Release me Release me Release me ...and let me come home.
