Sanctuary - Ouroboros

A searing, thirsty, tattered wreck --

Staggering, through the abyss

Respite from this suffering:

A hope I once dismissed

On a quest for preservation

To escape my own negation

I’ll employ a novel strategy

And plunge into insanity

Bubbles ripple overhead

Temperature starts to cool

The purest water fills my mouth

In this divine pool

We have an intellectual reach that

No mere bodies can contain

With a leap beyond ancestral bonds

Only fragments will remain

Mind now a part of the

Experience machine;

A sensory extension

Beyond all previous comprehension

Bubbles ripple overhead

Temperature starts to cool

The purest water fills my mouth

In this divine pool

I slip into insanity

In time I’ll shed this skin

A golden age is beckoning

Once reborn, mind alive

Embrace this future to survive

The gentle pull of the tide

Its sublime ebb and flow

The soothing spray of stars

Leads me where I must go

Face down on a distant secluded shore

Death only a memory

Insanity: my sanctuary;

Our sanctuary

Through an ever-changing oceanic

Flow of information

I’ll free myself from the

Confines of this fleshy prison

Memory assimilation

Thought-process integration

Self-concept reformation

Vestigial disintegration

Bubbles ripple overhead

Temperature starts to cool

The purest water fills my mouth

In this divine pool

Technological unification

Initiates this new awakening