________ distant .

<sub>The paths that I once tread
have all but gone.
Only embers now smolder
where bridges once burned.
I feel alive and yet I fear
what may happen now.
I know I can't return.

And I hear me say again
'oh let me not return'.
Damn the illusion of redemption
and the hopes that held me here.
I will oppose all that would befall me.
With this rage inside of me
I will defy what I would become.

The solitude and anger
that do battle inside me
will always guide me to the answers
that I know I may not see.
They are the bonds that hold me tighter.
They are the chains that weigh on me.
One day I know they will be gone.

Can I start again and erase this pain
by casting doubts into the waters,
asking judgement of the sea.
Though fortune may guide to the fools
I have no wish to be free
until I am gone.

- VNV Nation</sub>


whoa it's 3AM. how did that happen.

I started this a few weeks ago and liked it enough to finish it tonight. yay.

originally inspired by the song Vanished by Crystal Castles, but Distant (Rubicon II) by VNV Nation suits it better.
painted in Photoshop, at least ehh 8 hours.