Name: NOTHING ELSE MATTERS by Kahnshi
Duration: 29 s
Description: Nothing Else Matters

look at you, now look at me

Monsters, monsters, yes we are!

body language

NOTHING ELSE MATTERS

song - beat it by Sean Kingston ft. chris brown (overlapped)
character - jiu ji-tae from fight class 3

BEAT IT

swim (skip to 15s)

your girl

role model

“Tome of Stars” is a 100 sonnet journey, equal parts art, therapy journal, and exorcism, both a celebration and an elegy, a single narrative arc tracing the birth and death of a relationship. All poetry by Stargazer. The verse and accompanying synthetic art and music are public domain, CC0, with no restrictions on use. Nothing is monetized. See below for links on how to access the print, PDF, audio, ePub, video, and music files. 
Website: https://www.tomeofstars.net/

In the classical margam of bharatanatyam, the varnam is the recital’s centerpiece, its longest and most emotionally charged performance. In “Tome of Stars“, the varnam appears as the twenty-nine-poem section “Senescence”. Following the exaltation of Anthesis, the beloved as a celestial goddess, love now descends from the stars into the gravity of human frailty. 

This sonnet continues the psychological excavation begun in Part 1 of the “Once Upon a Time” quartet, tracing the fallout of childhood abuse into adult foundational life decisions. It portrays how early trauma corrupted the poet’s capacity to recognize and act upon authentic emotional needs, training him instead to betray his inner truth in the name of obligation to others and their needs. The poem’s central event—the poet’s marriage to someone he did not love—is framed not as a singular failing but as the inevitable culmination of conditioning. Stylized in mythic, often allegorical diction, the sonnet draws a tragic throughline from psychic violation to spiritual treason.

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Lyrics

She trained him early how to bend—and break.
She deemed his heart’s extinction, virtue’s crown.
Thus truth became illusion in her wake—
A venomed swamp with meaning choked and drowned. 

A sapling warped by dark enchanter’s spell,
His spirit spread through twisted tracks untrue;
No magic could unmake her binding’s hell,
That marred his mind and rent his sight askew.

He sought a weaver of remembered chains,
Who spun his past into a bridal veil.
Their bond she sowed from duty’s cold refrain;
His passions languished in a frozen jail.

He prayed for guidance, but the gods were cold. 
So, shaped by sin, he wed and sold his soul.

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Internet Archive
Book of sonnets:
https://archive.org/details/tome-of-stars/

Music:
Item 1, Anthesis: https://archive.org/details/Anthesis/
Item 2, Senescence: https://archive.org/details/senescence_tomeofstars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://archive.org/details/Sporogenesis_TomeOfStars/
Item 4, Anemochory: https://archive.org/details/Anemochory_TomeOfStars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://archive.org/details/Quixotosis_TomeOfStars
Item 6, Scripture: https://archive.org/details/Scripture_TomeOfStars

Bandcamp:

Item 1, Anthesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anthesis-item-1-of-tome-of-stars
Item 2, Senescence: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/senescence-item-2-of-tome-of-stars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/sporogenesis-item-3-of-tome-of-stars
Item 4, Anemochory: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anemochory-item-4-of-tome-of-stars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/quixotosis-item-5-of-tome-of-stars
Item 6, Scripture: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/scripture-item-6-of-tome-of-stars

Once Upon a Time Part 2

A theatrical dark metal rampage through swamp and madness.

NOTHING ELSE MATTERS

Kahnshi

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