The Seekers

Through dense forests and swamps
 They work their way to the cave
 Under the mountain they find
 A maze of waste marshes and dead ends
 Across the torchlit stone walls
 Grisly shadows start to crawl
 The seekers begin to hear
 Whispers in their heads
 The secret key to the wisdom hidden from mortals
 The seekers follow signs that lead into the dark past
 Beyond the world of those unaware of portals
 That take us somewhere darker than death
 After many hours wandering inside the cave
 They come to a great stone gate
 The marble stele stands by the gate
 Adorned with crypted engravings
 Within an aumbry in the stele
 They find a mysterious sealed vessel
 That holds a liquid inside — now the finest minds
 Are to decipher the writings in the stone
 The secret key to the wisdom hidden from mortals
 The seekers follow signs that lead into the dark past
 Beyond the world of those unaware of portals
 Of something darker than death
 The writing on the stone now decrypted
 To enter the gate they have to trust what it says
 It says to drink the elixir from the vessel
 The collective big sleep will follow
 It may be fatal
 Or prophetic
 They drain the vessel and soon
 All the shadows and whispers become real
 The walls start to close on them
 Leaving no air to breathe
 The secret key to the wisdom hidden from mortals
 The seekers follow signs that lead into the dark past
 Beyond the world of those unaware of pathways
 Much darker than death
 Their minds are dissolving while walls melt, all of reality fades
 There is no more past, no one will stay the same
 No more fear, no lies, no memories, no regrets to retain
 There are no more selves, only the radiating dark
 We need to trust
 The dark in us
 The trial is just
 The dark and us