Assemblage 23: Document

	In stillness
	A silent weight
	Pausing as the minutes each evaporate

	A desire
	To leave a scar
	To raise a voice from within the dark

	Decaying
	Cascading
	Existence falls apart
	Around me
	Within me
	So I must leave my mark

		This is a document
		To prove that I was here
		This is a document
		To prove I was at all
		And when my voice ceases to be
		Will the echo still ring loudly?
		And when there's nothing left of me
		Will my memory still go on?

	A flicker
	Transitory state
	An echo of an instance that burns a way

	A moment
	A shard of time
	A solitary thread that threatens to unwind

	Decaying
	Cascading
	Existence falls apart
	Around me
	Within me
	So I must leave my mark

		This is a document
		To prove that I was here
		This is a document
		To prove I was at all
		And when my voice ceases to be
		Will the echo still ring loudly?
		And when there's nothing left of me
		Will my memory still go on?

	Distant
	An approaching age
	When this document falls beneath another's gaze

	Too late
	We have lost the dawn
	The signal's loud and clear, but the transmitter's gone

	Decaying
	Cascading
	Existence falls apart
	Around me
	Within me
	So I must leave my mark

		This is a document
		To prove that I was here
		This is a document
		To prove I was at all
		And when my voice ceases to be
		Will the echo still ring loudly?
		And when there's nothing left of me
		Will my memory still go on?

		This is a document
		To prove that I was here
		This is a document
		To prove I was at all
		And when my voice ceases to be
		Will the echo still ring loudly?
		And when there's nothing left of me
		Will my memory still go on?

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