Emerald Light
Emerald Light: A Journey through Life's Final Symphony
Lyrics
Light
Reference to an illuminating force
I knew not the hour
Lack of awareness about timing
Or the place, or the reason
Uncertainty about circumstances
But it bathed me in its rays
Immersed in its brilliance
Begging to be captured
Desire for capture or preservation
Stored away
Intention to keep it stored
Stolen from whatever plane
Suggesting theft from its intended place
It was cursed to claim
Implication of a curse on its domain
Hovering and waiting
Hovering and waiting for acceptance
For a heart to give up
Requirement of emotional surrender
For a set of lungs
Allusion to vulnerability and submission
To empty in its wake
Symbolism of aftermath or consequences
Emerald light
Descriptive color for the illuminating force
Slowly washed over me
Gradual and gentle exposure to its effect
Offering death
Offering an escape through death
Begging to set me free
Desire for liberation from a burden
Lifting and weeping
Symbolic elevation and emotional distress
I begged it to recede, then
Pleading for its withdrawal or retreat
In a quiet room cast in pale hues
Setting of a quiet, serene environment
Leaving no time
Lack of time for farewells or closure
To say goodbye to you
The feeling of loss or separation
Emerald tears fell to my skin
Symbolic tears causing realization
I realized I'd felt them before
Recognition of familiarity with sorrow
Midwest hospital
Specific memory tied to the feeling
Cold apartment floor
Another specific memory associated
Bird dead in a cage
Visual image representing despair
Poolside on July Four
Memories linked to past events
Emerald light
Reiteration of the emerald light's effect
Slowly washed over me
Continuation of the previous encounter
Offering death
Reiteration of its offer of escape
Begging to set me free
Describing the force's influence
Emerald light
Transition to a different experience
Carried me down the stairs
Symbolic movement or direction change
To somewhere darker
Implying a harsher or more challenging environment
More violent than here
Arousing from a dream or unconsciousness
I woke to a sound
Auditory perception post-unconsciousness
Doorkeeper in the corner
Imagery of a figure in a specific place
I asked if my time had run out
Inquiry about the state of being
There were memories and sounds
Memories and sensations reminiscent of disarray
Like an untuned upright piano
Comparative description of chaos or confusion
I could have been gone
Realization of potential absence in the past
For years now
Suggestion of a prolonged absence
And we all looked like trees
Metaphorical comparison to nature
Almost taken by the weather
Nearing a significant impact or change
Neither standing tall
State of neither being stable nor yielding
Nor pushed down
Indication of ambiguity in existence
Sometime and some place
Anticipation of a future transition
Something will carry us over
Belief in a forthcoming change or journey
But it's not here
Acknowledgment of absence in the present
And it's not now
Recognition of absence in the current moment
I woke to no sound
Resumption in a silent state
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