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Apparitions in Candlelight

from Liminal Rite by Kardashev

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“Light the candle in the middle of the room.
Burn your bridges to a past that has been lost.”

The Lost Man stands in what was once the living room of his home. It has been ransacked, squatted, degraded by animals, and blasphemed by the sacrilege of time. He sees a chair toppled over, splintered, and cracked. Looking closer there are words carved underneath. “I am invisible”. He squeezes his eyes shut and tries to remember. What was he hiding from when he wrote those words? What caused him so much fear? A dull flash of recollection glides across his mind. He was young. He had been playing with fire…..he dropped a match. His father was angry….and he, The Lost Child, was scared. Opening his eyes he remembers trying to be invisible and often attempting to be unseen. A cold hole in his stomach begins to grow as he realizes how much of his life is absent from his mind. His fingers turn and rotate a box of matches in the pocket of his jacket. He can’t regain the memories he once had. He has no life to return to. A cool breeze brushes his cheek and he looks up. His mother’s sewing room brings light into the room, catching the dust, and beckons him to come in.

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There, a small chair in the dust
On its side with splintered legs.
Cracks in a mirror
Across from old portraits.
There, a table that I carved into.
Secret note below laid to bare.
I believed what was written -
“I am invisible”

“Light the candle in the middle of the room.
Burn your bridges to a past that has been lost”

The shadows in the room have grown taller.
I’ve been here too long.
Blinded by greed for a past I don’t own -
Crater in the carpet
Where I once dropped the match.
I speak to shadows.
My shadow….
Myself …...
Longing for this room
To be crowded again.
How can I feel what is gone?

Can I be replaced with love?
Kiss away my wooden bones.

I am a pilgrim,
And Oh, I am lost.
The past that I loved
Has been molded and mossed.
A ghost in the window
A ghost on the lawn.
And Oh, how I miss it,
When certainty won.

Arms of the earth lay bare on the ground!
Through broken windows, the cicadas sound!

Light the candle in the middle of the room!
Burn your Bridges to a past that has been lost!
On a bed made out of broken matchsticks and moss….
Light the candle in the middle of the room!

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from Liminal Rite, released June 10, 2022

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Kardashev Tempe, Arizona

Kardashev is a Progressive Death Metal band focusing on themes of technology, selflessness, love, and altruism. Newly signed to Metal Blade Records, Kardashev is heading the charge toward solidifying the sound of "Deathgaze".

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