Finally you have come.
How long did I wait!
How supine did the wheels of time spin!
From inception, I was your charm-the ultimate ever in your possession.
I was your shadow:
Your trophies, quests, dreams, tears- I witnessed them all.
In your race of life, I constantly lagged behind you,
spying all your moves, noting all your emotion.
But now, my swift strides have finally edged past yours
and here I pause before you.
You lie there, kneeling before me.
You cry, you plead for mercy.
So is this the culmination of your valiance?
Why do you discount the fact that the same God you pray to now
has bestowed me imminence.
You fight now. You refuse me. How puerile!
Your strife resembles the efforts of a diseased cur
dueling the most vicious pack of hounds.
Why do you struggle at all?
For pride? Honour? Love?
All of them were mere illusions; mirages meant to delay our confluence.
Or is it for the sake of material lust?
Has that fragile thread not yet snapped?
It is this bond, which maligns me. Sever it.
In this earthly realm, not even the gods have triumphed over me.
Why do you think you will succeed?
Give in. Loosen this duress.
That will be your true victory.
That soft image ahead; know what it is?
Look closely. Doesn’t it coincide someone you know well?
Realization dawns, doesn’t it?
That is you! That is what you were, all put together.
Did the true portrait finally sink in you?
Good, now sink in me.
Free your desires and become free of regrets.
Deep within you apperceive you cannot win.
Yes, that’s it. Accept my refuge. Become one with me.
Hand me your fears, they no longer belong to you.
Into my depths you will submerge; but you will not drown.
Forfeit all and bask in my darkness.
I grant you the feeling you longed for all along.
What do you call it? Aah, I remember now. Peace.
Float in my sublime waves. Absorb this emptiness.
This has forever been your supreme desire.
I am not your enemy. I never was.
I am the ultimate giver.
I am the remedy for the anguish and misery called “life”.
I am the reality beyond the apparitions of affection.
I am Death, the ultimate conqueror.
