Recollection
Sacred Fragments
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
About the Creator
Insinq Datum
I'm an aspiring poet, author and philosopher. I run a 5000+ debating community on Discord and a couple of Youtube channels, one related to the Discord server and one related to my work as a philosopher. I am also the author of DMTheory.
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