Constellation

by Sarmatian Vale

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I fall behind
The party drudges on
Across the ice I watch them
Until they’re finally gone
I lie down on the snow

My body it betrays me
The cold it turns me numb
My vision starts to narrow
There’s blood within my lungs

Death was always abstract
A philosopher’s retreat
But here atop the ice cap
It seems so real to me

I set sail with a dream in my heart
To explore the distant North
As a kid looking out to sea
I was drawn by the mystery

A storm came in
And the engines all failed
Our crew was weary, sick
Bound to the glacier, thick

Months on the ice
All hope was lost
Our food was poison sweet
More of us dead each week

When the black order came
From the captain above
Take to the baron rift
Abandon the Erebus

We buried the dead
And set out through the snow
Across an endless plane
Eternal, must we go

A new sensation
From numbness comes a warmth
Like the heat from a flame
I know this to be
The failing of my frame

A bright constellation
A final glimpse of home
Is this my culmination
Is this my catacomb

Am I to be forgotten
Like the ship those miles back
Abandoned to the sea
A corpse beneath the ice

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released September 7, 2022

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