In the attic hid by rot The ulcer took my father into hell Into the glass Kairos infection A portal into the young limbs hunger Melted sands of time built before earth mimicking life Opening the gate into the seven kings reflective backward Behold the frame of all things gone and not yet made You can be the catalyst to unveil its grandeur These are the words my father told me Death will run when it sees your reflection Beyond the coat of metal that the pane adheres to Is a land uncharted unlike any you could dream of None could brace for the galactic impact of what came Immediately teleported into the mirror My father was taken but his image remained Gone for days or eons I waited Then finally when I climbed down the ladder of the attic I found my family dead and rotted What had made them paralyzed and locked in contorted positions? Is this real life or am I trapped in an endless dead reflection? A flood of new memories hits me I had reshaped their limbs and then left them Was this the mirror's will? I'm crawling back into the attic to deadbolt it Deadbolt the reflective backward Deadbolt the reflective backward I can't leave them here like this My conscience will not let me Did my mother want a burial or cremation? I will dig a pit beside the fig tree Where she'd lay to relieve her pain I'll bury my siblings with her And I remain but the rest are gone, their death incepted At the very second that my father exhumed the enemy of linear time The outside is gone The backward will not let me leave I carry all their bodies into the kitchen Lifting up the curtain finding only black beyond the window I break the glass and a wretched light Drowns me in a vibrant blinding ocean I fill up with a dark and viscous liquid Next to my mother, brother and my sister They woke to drowned for decades with me in this well Living an eternity in the ulcer How do I escape to deadbolt the backward hell? We're one and the same I and the refracting entity We're one and the same Split by the edge of the prism in front of me I sink into pain Knowing they're gone up there but remain alive here I pull the black out of my mouth and climb the attic ladder The glass had taken over My father melting in it Writhing and raveling Vomiting up his skin Turning into towers of sinew His many eyes twitching in agonized unison The glass had taken over My father melting in it Writhing and raveling Vomiting up his skin Turning into towers of sinew His many eyes twitching in agonized unison Hold the frame of all things gone and not yet made You can be the catalyst to unveil its grandeur These are the words my father told me Death will run when it sees your reflection Beyond the coat of metal that the pane adheres to Is a land uncharted unlike any you could dream of None could brace for the galactic impact of what came Open the refracting ulcer Unlock the reflective backward Gone for days or eons I waited Open the refracting ulcer Unlock the reflective backward Now the black lake will live inside me One endless wave pulsing underneath the surface of my eyes Now the black lake will live inside me One endless wave pulsing underneath the surface of my eyes Deadbolt the reflective backward