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by J. Lee Author IconMail Icon
Rated: E · Fiction · Personal · #2333088
A eulogy written for a life that dared to live outside of what most know as real.
In solemn reverence, I rise to honor one who walked among us, yet seemed ever to linger at the threshold of some divine and ineffable elsewhere. A soul whose essence was carved not from the coarse clay of mortal drudgery, but from the trembling luminescence of stardust and shadow.

Their breath, their very being, was a symphony of contradictions—melancholy and mirth entwined in a waltz as eternal as the heavens themselves. Like a raven perched upon the sill of infinity, they gazed into the abyss, and, unflinching, whispered secrets to the void.

Yet theirs was no ordinary void! It was a clock dripping with time's molten tears, each second pooling into dreams that defied the boundaries of reason. They strode through their hours not as a prisoner of chronology, but as a painter of eternity, splashing hues of madness and brilliance upon the bleak canvas of existence.

Did you hear them laugh? A laugh that cracked the dome of reality itself, spilling surreal landscapes of golden elephants and clocks bending like reeds in a tempest. Did you see them weep? For even their tears fell not as water, but as crystalline truths, too beautiful and too agonizing for this world to comprehend.

Oh, how they dared! How they dared to leap into the chasm of unbeing, to wrestle with angels and demons alike, all for the glory of grasping that fleeting, fragile thread we call meaning. They were the alchemist of their own undoing, transmuting pain into poetry, despair into divinity, and love into an eternal flame.

But lo, they have passed beyond, beyond the veils and the mirrors, beyond the clocks and the ravens. The dreamer ascends, not in death, but in the exquisite liberation of form. Their echo shall linger in the tides of thought, in the trembling heart of creation itself.

So let us not mourn this departure, for they have not left us. No, they are the shadow in the moonlight, the pulse beneath the earth, the surreal clock ticking backward toward eternity. They are the dream that dreams us all.

Farewell, my friend, my muse, my luminous enigma. The tides may ebb, the stars may dim, but your flame shall burn forevermore in the hearts of those who dare to dream.
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