One, apathy

• I am that I am, and I am nothing

Two, disruption

• There goes a great shudder through the muscle
• A shimmering of bells through the mist

Three, curiosity

• One quick moment to crane the neck
• I have always possessed the insatiable need to see what happens inside the room

Four, assimilation

• Lo, wellspring of knowledge, of feeling, of sensation
• Beauty, overwhelming
• I will dislocate my jaw to fit it all in

Five, aggrandization

• The pull, yes, the pull
• Send down your cordage of suffocation and let me in

Six, delineation

• I want to know what God knows, and I will be with Him
• Sent over the edge, I sigh
• Flush against the veil, I sing

Seven, perversion

• It is no good, bearing false witness
• The sinner's errand
• I am what I am, but we are not the same
• It is no good, speaking of fairness
• The fool's errand

Eight, resentment

• Are these laurels to be proud of?
• Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live
• Hate, hate

Nine, separation

• I was an angel, though plummeting
• The stars are as beams shining through the wheel
• I am sure that hell must be cold

Ten, degradation

• Nature chews on me

Eleven, annihilation

• This agony
• Such is the consequence of audience
• I will claw my way back to the great dark, and we will not speak of this place again

Twelve, desolation

• Therein lies sacred geometry of onanism
• Of ouroboros, of punishment
• I am that I was as I no longer am, for I am nothing
• Amen