Sanctuary

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.