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Fires in the Distance

Circadian Promise
Released 2026-06-12 57 days ago
Country Connecticut
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Circadian Promise Cover
1186
Total Words
515
Unique Words
49m 22s
Duration
24.0
Words / Min
197
Avg / Track
253
Total Lines
6591
Characters
1894
Vowels
3321
Consonants
0
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1. Of Radiance and Levitation

9m 27s Length
184 Words
127 Unique
19.5 WPM
1004 Chars
45 Lines 
OF RADIANCE AND LEVITATION


Light, it comes through a colorless prism
Cutting through tempest and hail
Disarming the hand raised against us
Giving us time to inhale


Contagion of all we hold dear
Slowly begins to erode
Fates long decided begin to shift
Restoring the debt that was owed


My sight taken from me
Carefully holding the sway
Venom entrenched in my veins
Gives way


Shades, they lash at the rays now upon us
In hopeless attempts to inflict
Merciless wounds that would maim us
With no claim left to collect


Wading ahead through the waters
Marching on towards my end
I suddenly lift from the earth below
A state I cannot comprehend


A light has shone, on the blackest moor
Where I've learned to see in the dark
A shocking pain for eyes that have only known
A world of shadows
How long would it take to adjust, how long until I can trust
A presence so foreign and a hope so absolute
My doubt chains me back to the earth


Carefully holding the sway
Poisons which nest in my spirit
Give way

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2. To You, Author of My Fade

9m 3s Length
215 Words
139 Unique
23.8 WPM
1191 Chars
43 Lines 
TO YOU, AUTHOR OF MY FADE


Bearing his fangs, hopelessly locked in the stare
He comes with no legions tonight
Eyes flashing fire, burning with coldest of flames
Resolved to extinguish my light


I stand reflecting his gaze
Yet something confounds what I see
Not embers but ice, yet only a trace
Familiar only to me


Rise and peer at the stars
Somewhere among them he sleeps
Only I know who you are
And all of the horrors you keep


No trace of you, but your echoes fill my ears
I'll scale the stars, murderous when you appear
And slowly then from the heavens we'll descend
Hands wrapped around each other's throats until the end


Soul is severed from flesh, discarding the dimming wish of reprieve
Scholar in arts of erasure, promising not to deceive
Sights which bear no logic encircle my fragmented form
It seems you shall be the author of pages... I hoped I'd indelibly torn  


I've read back through this tome
Through chapters of the endless war of our shared past
I'll make this volume my own
When I inscribe: "This starlit battle will be our last."


Rise, and peer at the stars
Somewhere among them he sleeps
I've always known who you are
And that which forever binds you... to me

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3. Lightless Days of a Songless Bird

8m 49s Length
260 Words
140 Unique
29.5 WPM
1454 Chars
49 Lines 
LIGHTLESS DAYS OF A SONGLESS BIRD


Callous, relentlessly sharp
Devoid of remorse, it's drowning out my song
Obscuring the sun, my melody wanes inside the surge


Replaced with frigid volleys of apathetic hail
My notes struck from the record, forever carried off by silver gales


And in the end, the wings of a songless bird will be denied the sky
You've lost the words to speak, your only chance has passed you by
And as the sun withdraws forever, the moon becomes the guide
Enchained by hidden tethers, by chance or by design


Vines are slowly twisting, and creeping towards the heart
They siphon all desires and shred our hopes apart
And any recollections held so dear with promised light
Dissolve before my eyes, absorbed with no remorse this dreamless night


A searing flash delivers shattering reform
Brings agony untold, the fire of a thousand solar storms


Why can't I remember
When I lost it all


Why can't I remember
How I lost it all


Callous to welcome the fall
Devoid of all color, my world now monochrome
No trace of the sun, no melody left to bring me home


Replaced with boundless silence, and knowledge of the end
A song now long-forgotten, I miss you most of all my dearest friend


And in the end, the wings of a songless bird, will be denied the sky
You've lost the words to speak, your only chance has passed you by
And as the sun withdraws forever, the moon becomes the guide
Eroded chains lie severed, by chance or by design

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4. By This Time Tomorrow

5m 5s Length
129 Words
99 Unique
25.4 WPM
716 Chars
14 Lines 
BY THIS TIME TOMORROW


Shimmering snow covers a path we all fear, but this time there's no turning back
To say my goodbyes, if only within my own heart, as life starts to spill from my eyes
Soul parts with flesh, it watches a shell marching on, as ice underneath starts to crack
No panic or dread, slowly I sink 'neath the waves, forever embracing the fathomless black


And one winter day it all seemed to finally break, revealing a sonorous truth
I never had known such sadness could live in us all, it stands with no chance to elude
Only when you're at your lowest, shattered, frantically searching with no one to reach
You'll learn the true meaning of silence... 
Bereft of the credulous hopes, yet finally free

Word Counts

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5. Once the Silence Takes Your Place

8m 59s Length
226 Words
130 Unique
25.2 WPM
1203 Chars
48 Lines 
ONCE THE SILENCE TAKES YOUR PLACE


Words
From shallowed breath and whispered tongues
A specter passing by with echoes of the sun
The years have long since gone with nothing in their wake
Their ghosts are walking through me


Dust
Adorns the halls once filled with light
No names left to invoke, no poem left to cite
Yet I still hear our song of eons past
I watch my soul depart before me


A blaze that promises the dawn, long gone
What came before and that which longs to be
In embers of the past 


Cold
To face the crushing waves of fear
One path before me, the way has been made clear
A distant spark may yet ignite a frozen heart
A hope for someone else, through lands I'll never chart


Veiled
The smoke obscures a hollow gaze
All doors are locked, and broken windows sway
I wish them peace inside a warm embrace
It's time to go now, with only silence in your place


These flames will purge creation, skies from heaven torn


A blaze that promises the dawn... long gone
What came before and that which longs to be
In embers of the past


The years have long since gone, with nothing in their wake
Their ghosts walking through me
I watch my soul depart and follow them
To leave this place forever

Word Counts

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6. Agonal Dreaming

7m 57s Length
172 Words
105 Unique
21.6 WPM
1023 Chars
54 Lines 
AGONAL DREAMING


The end
Approaches with grace, breaking through guard and what's left of my spirit
Eroding the light of tomorrow's advance


Gathering clouds
Encircle my home, weaving a promise of grey dereliction
An imminent storm carries my terminal dream


Protector
My slumbering friend
What will it take now to wake you
I kneel at your side as the tempests descend


Guardian
My solemn direction
My compass no more
In this hour of penance I beg to restore




I would scour the stars for your light
I'd relinquish my eyes for your sight
Pierce my soul, count my breaths
I know your presence foreshadows my death




Specters before me take form
Echoes of those I've forsworn
Raging flames dim to a spark
The shades circumscribing their mark




Gathering clouds
Surrounded my soul, hopelessly lost in their vortex
Circadian storms, brought me my terminal dream




I would scour the stars for your light
I'd relinquish my eyes for your sight
Pierce my soul, count my breaths
I know your presence foreshadows my death

Word Counts

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