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The Vightknigh

from Obdurate by Obdurate

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What if you needed yourself but yourself was sleepwalking?
In the panic of being startled awake?
Does this labyrinth twist? Delirium sets
Awoken still drunk, but where the hell are you?

Two people at base camp, one satisfied, one longing
Is the clash here personality?
Define a threshold where above this, do, beneath it, don't
"Lived that way, died that way" is inconsistent with suicide

Is the scary part losing psychological sense?
It is not replaced by merely a void, even there the word "replaced" was used
The Vightknigh creeps

The thoughts overwhelm me, my mind is my television
Ridiculous consoling: "they gave spoonerism a name"
If comprehension ruled out cancer would focus improve?
A notepad only makes him invisible

An introvert might need a pep talk beforehand
An extrovert might need a television running
A cloud dissipates as its primary function
Pedogagy treats abandonment carefully
A neurotic let's out a sigh of relief, unfortunately they're safe as they spend their time thinking

Happy and bubbly, without pain nor a clue
Plotting life against time, the line goes up then goes down
A full stop as a purpose, the use of "curtain call"'s not deep

"I've been in a cave the whole time I've been drooling
A costly muse, then again that was the point...
A blip, it's light, I've found my way out!
I should never have come here to meet it in person
Thank God I am home, safe and intact

Leave to retrieve, drink water as I'm thirsty
Engineering ideas in my head while I'm working, god that school camp that one time got weird...
"What I was saying was I think that what you said was, I was agreeing"
I don't even believe that, why did I say so?

What a bizarre thing it eats, at first it was laughed at
If the walls slipped to query you'd sit dumbfounded and silent
In my writing, interactions, routines, and thoughts
Over my shoulder, in my ear, hovering above, then sinking in
Inside me, part of me, replacing me, then me
Is that the Vightknigh?

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from Obdurate, released January 15, 2021

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Obdurate Melbourne, Australia

During the Australian gold rush of the 1850s, the Chinese were not allowed into the Australian mining camps, so instead they searched through and indeed found gold inside the piles of dirt discarded by the Australians.

Music exhibits the same phenomena. We did not search thoroughly enough through what has been available to us for years. What musical gold is out there, waiting to be discovered...? ... more

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