Crown of Seclusion - Shattering the Endless Black

I've been suspended in this darkness for so long
It's all that I've ever felt, it's all that I've ever known
How am I aware of my own existence when I've always been alone?
Are my eyes open, or are they closed?
I reach out, but there's nothing to feel
Am I alive, or am I dead?
I try to scream, but there's nothing to hear

Reality itself begins to crack
I sense the shattering of the endless black

Part of me is gone yet I still feel the same
Somehow I know that I am to blame
If only I knew what it was that I did
Maybe I could find a way to end this

I wish to be free but there's nothing to resist
How can I be sure that I truly exist?
As I stare out into the infinite abyss
I can feel myself staring back at me

I writhe in agony as I fade away
A pain incomprehensible as the fragments open my veins
My life flows out to fill this empty space
I can feel myself watching me suffer, with a grin on my face

Ever-expanding, all-consuming existence
Pulling in all directions, yet pushing all the same
My life fills the fractures, I am one with the void
Trapped in the confines of endless space
Drifting into nothing
Fading from reality
Joining with the darkness
Becoming the one I always was

I am what I am, I am what I'm not
Seeing all, seeing none, creating all thought
I sense a figure in the center of it all
And I know it's myself staring back at me

I wish to be free but there's nothing to resist
How can I be sure that I truly exist?
As I stare out into the infinite abyss
I can feel myself staring back at me