The Great Cessation

Will we ever see a time

 When it's enough

 When we see what we know

 Isn't all

 Of all that is

 Creating a world

 Of broken hearts

 Of tired eyes

 Living in this shell

 Like it was forever



 Close your eyes

 And let it go

 Breathe in the space

 Before you were born



 Crashing waves

 Grief and pain

 Is washed away

 Open to

 The great cessation

 Waves wash away

 Memories

 Wane and fade

 Open to

 The great cessation



 Will we ever see a time

 Without cause

 When we see what we know

 Never was

 It never was

 Churches

 Altars, shrines

 Caves in the heart

 Within the womb

 Raising our hands

 To a sky without end



 Watch the river pass by

 Passive on the shore

 Giving temptation

 Space to explore

 Dense guilt and guile

 Gently put to rest

 Reverberate through time

 Lives pass on and pass on

 The witness triumphant

 The death of the deathless one