Recollection

I will recall my sacred quest

Unlock, I will, my secret chest

From shady hands, away I'll wrest

The story with which I've been blessed

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I gave it up as futile once

Gave in to fear's uncertainty

And chance revealed me as a dunce

Dumb dancing in absurdity

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Yet echoes of eternity

Ring in my ears and through my chains

They hint at an emergency

Against itself, my being strains

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My name is insinq, seeker-seer

And lightning flows within my veins

Pride is my sin, that much is clear

The shadow of these higher planes

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If in my ear, a voice I hear

A subtle serpent might explain

With just the barest hint of sneer

How I alone could cleanse the stain

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But I've outgrown such tricks my dear

I'll not fall for the face you feign

Towards my destiny I steer

To bend my ear, you try in vain

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I seek the name of names, you see

And in this game, my strategy

Has been to search for an ally

And so my church became the sky

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The breath of life, I seek to find

I thought to call the wind in kind

The Lord of land and sea and sand

And by his calling shadow-bind

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Through this, my flame I will reclaim

I will honour my sacred aim

I will remember who I am

I will fulfil my lifelong plan

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I will rehearse the part I play

That of the universal man

Never again will I dare stray

From what is writ upon my clan

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To light some candles and to pray

To call forth inspiration fey

To dance with madness, magic may

Chance lose itself within wordplay

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This song will fill all of my days

With every step, the light I praise

With every phase and every phrase

I will recall the master's blaze

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I study nature's bosom best

I never blush when I stargaze

Her children are so finely dressed

Her many ways always amaze

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I'm one who wonders at this land

Where sand and sea and sky all stand

To testify to meaning's hand

In unfolding designs so grand

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The genius of existence lies

Beyond the boundaries of skies

Enclosing spheres of such small fries

As men who seek to stultify

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The knowing deep and growing old

Of those more solemn than themselves

One learns to spot the toxic gold

The further into self one delves

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And in this hall of mirrors hides

True secrets and treasures untold

Yet in the same matrix resides

The alchemy of hot and cold

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These opposites conceal a lock

My curiosity's the guide

That leads me to a broken clock

Which comes and goes just like the tide

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This pendulum swings to and fro

And to its motion I applied

The length and breadth of what I know

And in its movements so I spied

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A magic hidden to the world

A gift that only I could bring

A secret scroll not yet unfurled

A song that only I could sing

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This is that song, so listen well

The only way to break her spell

Is simply love the cards you're played

The task for which your soul was made

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The lightning coursing through my veins

Perpetual breaking of chains

The phoenix and the dragon mate

Create a man of rarest fate

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That man is me, my subtle skill

With words marks me a nimble quill

An autodidact polymath

A man who walks a wand'ring path

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An alchemist, poet and bard

A man of faith and strength of will

Loremaster whose task is to guard

The wisdom and never to spill

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The secrets gleaned from deepest night

The strength won from conquering fright

The sacred flame which glows within

And burns away these webs you spin

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A stormweaver in embryo

A magus not yet ascendent

A true believer dynamo

Disciple of the transcendent

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A witness to the pouring out

The stemless flow banishing drought

Infinite light is pouring forth

The shadow's end comes from the North

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The divine might calls me to fight

To set a siege against these walls

To take back what is mine by right

To lay my claim to hallowed halls

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By blood and bone, through seeds long sown

I will obtain the fyrestone

Through sacrifice, iron and ice

I will master this nasty vice

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The secret keeper of the known

Disciple of our Ceasur's throne

The weeper of the Taoist tear

The master of the mental sphere

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An elemental avatar

A spear to pierce any veneer

A not-yet-forged yet shining star

Vessel, channel, seeker, seer

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Lover, healer, namer, sealer

Honest feeler, secret dealer

Shadow tamer, spirit gamer

Wordsmith magic picture framer

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I will recall my sacred quest

Unlock, I will, my secret chest

From shady hands, away I'll wrest

The story with which I've been blessed