In Endless Night

⇟From whom

Are we asking too much

The question begs another:

Is it any wonder?

After all we've seen

In the depths of deepest stills

This void appears endless

Like the road most travelled

Treacherous, perhaps

If not altogether lethal

Illusory freedom is

A nocturnal bird in flight

Withholding with intent

Owed to none, yet

Determined to be earned

Against its very nature

Liberation has it's price

Blood and sacrifice

Pave over

Brand-name flags

In home-team colours⇞

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I don't tend to include music in my posts, as I'd like to imagine the work speaks for itself without a need for accompaniment. However, this cover was repeating in my head the whole time that I wrote this piece, and I think that must mean that, in some way, it wanted to be heard; even if by no conscious intention of it's own. I am not so confident, though, in the validity of dismissing it's autonomy of voice, as it is a powerfully soulful rendition which I could not in good conscience bring myself to stifle or keep to myself. Here's to blaringly unignorable truths, and to Anohni, here seen performing Leonard Cohen's If It Be Your Will for the 2005 documentary Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, from Lian Lunsen.