A temporary descent into the depths of the underworld Ends up an odyssey through pale Gehinnom Detached and stray, adrift, frail No fire to flicker, no shadows to grow Rite of passage gone wrong Lost in liminal Warped patterns, fractured truths No shores in sight, no trail ahead In radiance of a broken prism Led through scorched earth Forever in friction Without purpose, no way there No other world and no other truth No other aim and no other path No other will and no other fall No other mind, no other heart A blind communion A dirge for the ego Lost in liminal