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When Under Ether

The ceiling is moving, 
moving in time,
like a conveyor belt 
above my eyes.

When under ether
the mind comes alive, 
conscious of nothing 
but the will to survive.

I lay on the bed,
waist down undressed, 
look up at the ceiling 
feeling happiness.

Human kindness;

the woman beside me 
is holding my hand,
I point at the ceiling, 
she smiles, so kind.

Something's inside me 
unborn and unblessed, 
disappears in the ether 
this world to the next.

Human kindness.


White Chalk

When Under Ether

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Text:
[Verse 1]
I lay beneath the cosmic sea,
In the desert where the world breathes free.
The air was thin, the stars alive,
Ancient whispers start to rise.

A thousand suns above me burn,
The wheel of time begins to turn.
No gods, no kings, no holy fight —
Just numbers dancing in the night.

[Chorus]
We are children of the sky,
Counting shadows as they fly.
Through the fire, through the stone,
The Maya cracked the cosmic code.

(solo)

[Verse 2]
No glass, no wires, no modern eyes,
Yet they mapped the midnight skies.
They spoke with stars, with moon and flame,
Each eclipse they called by name.

Now city lights erase the view,
But truth is old, not something new.
You just forget what they could see —
The universe inside of thee.

[Chorus]
We are children of the sky,
Counting shadows as they fly.
Through the fire, through the stone,
The Maya cracked the cosmic code.

(solo)

[Bridge – Spoken/Whispered]
They knew the day the sun would hide,
The sacred math, the stars collide.
In silence they would calculate —
No error, no escape from fate.

[Outro]
And when I looked up that night so far,
I saw myself inside each star.
We think we rule, but all we know —
We’re just dust that learned to glow.

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