Anovoca

There is no more powerful or influential voice than that of my own thoughts, left unrestrained in the silence of seclusion, free to formulate, conclude upon, and challenge my very being.

The thing about darkness is that it is but a perception. We would cling to the shadows to hide, but the truth is we are never truly concealed. As time passes by the eyes adjust and before long we find ourselves with an all too clear vision of that which we were hiding from, ourselves. Some call me a man of shadows, yet through my eyes I live in a place of complete clarity. For it was in the shadows where I ran to hide. And it is in the shadows that I found my true self.

There was a time when I felt myself drowning in monotony. The hours had ticked by with only the hands of a clock to show that time had not stood still. As I sat staring out upon the unchanging image before me, the perceptions and fallacies we are all born with began to slip away. My eyes became open for the first time to the dimension of time and I found myself taking a step backward, deeper into that dimension. As I did so I felt all present existence peel away from me and a strange coldness enveloped my spirit, as though cold metal needles were being slipped under my skin. I stared for some time at the image that was before me. As far as I