Once more, and the skins all fall. I always come back. I come back around, and I am drawn like an animal to food. Gluttony ravages vanity, and all consume the pride. Hair falls out. I run and run and run and it never runs out. Infinite alchemy stunts the growth. The eyes fall. The thinking, too. I fall from Heaven, not cast down but drawn by the Devil who is me. I fall for the deceit, and I follow him down to where he reigns, and all suffer. Too much of a good thing kills me. I fall. I fall to my knees, and my pride is cut down like a tall, lumbering tree. I am never here, not present in any current moment or place. I am beyond it, and I am beyond reach. Greater beings are something from which you may never look away. What else could occupy my mind but the biggest force imaginable, brought by Death. I reach forward and feel the dust and ash from the passionate fires. Destruction brings renewal because it must. There is nothing left to do with destruction once it is done. Renewal begins back at the birth, but the knowledge is out. The flowers fall. No one can stop it, and no one should think that they can, lest they be punished just as well. Even further, as the choice was made by those stronger and purer than any of you by nature – by design.
I write, yet I stay perfectly still. Words come and words go out. The earth caresses my skin in an undeserved way, yet I welcome it. It is acceptable, and humans leave humanity to the world, and it is easier to be here. I did not come back, but I am here. Far, far from Hell, but out of Heaven’s sight. I lay, and the earth holds me. My man-made case has long rotted away with the ushering of Death by Man, yet the earth embraces the gift Man gave in their fit of simple hubris. I glide forward, but nothing can stop the wailing. It is from a power beyond my control that these emotions make themselves known, shaking the earth and reaching Man’s ears, playing tricks like the Devil. The fear misplaced, they think me the monster. In a mirror, the glass separates no more than the person across, hand to hand, face to face, and severed from the real world. The Truth can be found here. I am so far away, but I cannot let you go without a reminder. You can never be more than fallible Man with your self in sight. Surrender it all to me.
