(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")+(text-style:"bold","italic","outline")[The Doors of Perception]
(text-style:"italic")["Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything, it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you."]
-Jim Morrison
[[Fixations]]
[[Visitations]]
[[Senastions]]
(live: 1s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[From time to time](stop:)]
(live: 2s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent:12)[my mind recalls](stop:)]
(live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent:12)[those [[nights]] I wandered](stop:)]
(live: 4s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent:12)[endlessly](stop:)]
(live: 5s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent:12)[to the slow rhythm](stop:)]
(live: 6s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent:12)[of my beating instestent.](stop:)](live: 2s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[There is nothing to be found](stop:)]
(live: 5s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[but the quiet waves of nostalgia crashing through the emotionless walls, flooding the empty rooms](stop:)]
(live: 6s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[once brightly lit with ignorant bliss;](stop:)]
(live: 7s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[alive with irreplaceable precious companionship](stop:)]
(live: 8s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[dreams rich with promising destinations.](stop:)]
(live: 10s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Picture frames](stop:)]
(live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[imprison the captured moments in time](stop:)]
(live: 13s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[while the paintings continue to serve what once was.](stop:)]
(live: 15s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Brilliant people ](stop:)]
(live: 17s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[who were respected and admired,](stop:)]
(live: 19s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[loved by everyone around,](stop:)]
(live: 20s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[all reduced to nothing more than a wrinkled old page](stop:)]
(live: 22s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[attached to an aging book](stop:)]
(live: 23s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[on a dusty wooden shelf.](stop:)]
(live: 25s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Some end up falling into the dark depths of forgotten statistics](stop:)]
(live: 27s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[while others get lucky.](stop:)]
(live: 30s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Unless a memory is completely tossed into oblivion,](stop:)]
(live: 32s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[one never truly [[dies]].](stop:)](live: 11s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Over the hill](stop:)]
(live: 17s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Down the trail](stop:)]
(live: 10s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[There is a river](stop:)]
(live: 7s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Where dreams](stop:)]
(live: 18s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Set sail,](stop:)]
(live: 8s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Where fish](stop:)]
(live: 6s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Spread wings](stop:)]
(live: 14s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[While birds](stop:)]
(live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Grow gills](stop:)]
(live: 9s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[And fantasies of such things](stop:)]
(live: 5s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Enchant the greatest](stop:)]
(live: 15s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Of thrills.](stop:)]
(live: 1s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[All pleasures](stop:)]
(live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Perfectly in place](stop:)]
(live: 13s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Gifting the soul](stop:)]
(live: 19s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[The most ecstatic embrace,](stop:)]
(live: 4s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Dreams cruise along](stop:)]
(live: 2s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[In sparkling bliss](stop:)]
(live: 16s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Only to fall](stop:)]
(live: 20s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Down the white water abyss](stop:)]
(live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Deep into the lake of heresy](stop:)]
(live: 23s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[—The mists](stop:)]
(live: 24s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Of never-ending [[vanity]].](stop:)](live: 1s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[All it took was one look](stop:)]
(live: 2s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[and that was it.](stop:)]
(live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[My mind was shook](stop:)]
(live: 4s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[My fire well lit.](stop:)]
(live: 6s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Forever trapped in that night](stop:)]
(live: 7s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[a magnificent sight.](stop:)]
(live: 8s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Lucky to stand by her side](stop:)]
(live: 9s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[watching her glow in spontaneous light.](stop:)]
(live: 11s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[My opportunity rose](stop:)]
(live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 35)[missing it](stop:)]
(live: 13s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 35)[I foolishly chose.](stop:)]
(live: 14s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Went home with thoughts not on tomorrow](stop:)]
(live: 15s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[but stuck on yesterday](stop:)]
(live: 17s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[swallowed by sorrow.](stop:)]
(live: 19s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[She had the strings of my heart,](stop:)]
(live: 20s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[and stroked them like a harp.](stop:)]
(live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[The fragility of her voice](stop:)]
(live: 22s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[holds the majesty of a great river](stop:)]
(live: 23s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 30)[streaming with purity](stop:)]
(live: 24s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 30)[flowing ever so magically.](stop:)]
(live: 25s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[And her delicate [[body]],](stop:)]
(live: 26s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[as if it were entirely by choice](stop:)]
(live: 27s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 30)[to be created so perfectly](stop:)]
(live: 28s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 35)[ever so naturally.](stop:)]
(live: 30s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Longing for her presence](stop:)]
(live: 31s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[she is all that I crave.](stop:)]
(live: 32s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[May this be a lesson](stop:)]
(live: 33s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[how fast my heart can break.](stop:)]
(live: 34s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Now we are separate,](stop:)]
(live: 35s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[each on our own island,](stop:)]
(live: 36s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[But I can still see her shine](stop:)]
(live: 38s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Like a crazy diamond.](stop:)](live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Eyes](stop:)]
(live: 5s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[have witnessed](stop:)]
(live: 7s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[immaculate beauty.](stop:)]
(live: 10s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Ears](stop:)]
(live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[have heard](stop:)]
(live: 14s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[the howls of mighty winds.](stop:)]
(live: 17s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Hands](stop:)]
(live: 19s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[have felt](stop:)]
(live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[the hills](stop:)]
(live: 23s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[of fire.](stop:)]
(live: 26s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Lips](stop:)]
(live: 28s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[have drank](stop:)]
(live: 30s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 24)[from the ocean floor.](stop:)]
(live: 33s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Come now,](stop:)]
(live: 35s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[there is more
to explore
in the dimension
of [[the doors]].](stop:)](live: 1s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Every night I close my eyes, I see ghosts](stop:)]
(live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent:12)[—spirits spitting polluting my complex river maze
streaming through my already troubled terminal temptations.](stop:)]
(live: 6s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Last night I was visited by an old friend;](stop:)]
(live: 8s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent:12)[the one who plunged me down to yesterday’s rooms
leaving behind no unturned stones and no unbroken hearts.](stop:)]
(live: 10s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[The rooms rich with waves of nostalgic tears soaking the dull grey walls.
Once alive and brightly beamed with joyful ignorant bliss,](stop:)]
(live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[now infested by the fatal faces of ferocious regret:](stop:)]
(live: 14s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent:12)[By the ones who would rather embrace their own lonely philosophies](stop:)]
(live: 16s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[than to explore different trails to new doors](stop:)]
(live: 18s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent:15)[that unlock happier lives.](stop:)]
(live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent:12)[The ones who fetishize their own mortality
kneeling before the judgement of the tortured genius
hopelessly praying to someday ascend
to the same clouds of heavenly spotlight.](stop:)]
(live: 26s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Oh, my sweet ghost,](stop:)]
(live: 27s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[The precious time you have once gifted me is what I wish to forget but long to last forever](stop:)]
(live: 30s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent:12)[—in our own private realm of indulgence](stop:)]
(live: 33s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent: 12)[free from eternal purgatory](stop:)]
(live: 36s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[where we reveal our true feelings](stop:)]
(live: 39s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[for those nights which now only exist](stop:)]
(live: 41s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[in faraway lands.](stop:)]
(live: 45s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Why must my thoughts dance endlessly around you?](stop:)]
(live: 48s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Must I forever foolishly vanish into your sweet sensation?](stop:)]
(live: 52s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[How far](stop:)]
(live: 53s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent:12)[must the mind continue to bend?](stop:)]
(live: 56s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Does the dark](stop:)]
(live: 57s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent:12)[delusional desert end?](stop:)]
(live: 60s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Fly back](stop:)]
(live: 61s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(text-indent:12)[to [[the doors]]
to amend](stop:)]
(live: 63s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[and ascend.](stop:)](live: 1s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[When the fire dissolves into the wintry night,
Don’t say our time was out of sight.
Don’t say
Those thoughts were merely rocks
—Boulders trapped on the mountain’s top.
The smoke will surely rise
Giving way to sanity’s demise,
And to your call
The avalanche will fall.](stop:)]
(live: 10s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[When the wind extinguishes the burning fever of passion,
Don’t blame me for lacking in fashion.
For your hands are the paws,
Those claws
That tear through ground.
But indeed ’tis also me,
The one who’s own fragility,
Lets it all go down.](stop:)]
(live: 20s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[When those boulders do collapse
Off the mountain
Over the hill
Through the trail
Into the river
Down the waterfall…](stop:)]
(live: 30s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Only then, perhaps,](stop:)]
(live: 32s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Coming down from the high](stop:)]
(live: 34s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Will you meet vanity’s ferocious eye.](stop:)]
(live: 41s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Vanity!](stop:)]
(live: 42s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Vanity the passion!](stop:)]
(live: 43s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Vanity determination!](stop:)]
(live: 44s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Vanity the rich one’s flourishing material wealth!](stop:)]
(live: 45s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Vanity the wise one’s quest for Earthly divinity!](stop:)]
(live: 55s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[And when the river slows](stop:)]
(live: 57s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[And when the waterfall stops](stop:)]
(live: 59s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[And the stones are sunk](stop:)]
(live: 62s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[To the very bottom](stop:)]
(live: 64s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Beneath the ice,](stop:)]
(live: 66s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Stuck](stop:)]
(live: 68s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Tucked away](stop:)]
(live: 70s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Forgotten](stop:)]
(live: 74s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Far from Heaven’s warmth](stop:)]
(live: 80s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[Don’t say](stop:)]
(live: 82s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[you were never warned](stop:)]
(live: 84s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[when the doors](stop:)]
(live: 86s)[(t8n:"dissolve")[close.](stop:)]