Over the last month or so, I've become a huge fan of a metalcore band called Silent Planet. I really feel like their songwriting is far beyond most metal bands, especially lyrically. Their vocalist, Garrett Russell is an incredible writer. frozen metacarpals tap tap tap the window glass. Syncopated staccatos with the broken clock synchronized with my post-traumatic ticks ticks - talking to the space in the room that echoes back indiscernibly to my disconnected self/self - it’s self-consuming, what's ensuing is my undoing - the nightly casualty of war. [1] And it sounds like this: War, endless war. In my endless dance with entropy I must rescind my sentience, the sickness that I know. [2] Rearrange the disarray of disintegrated senses - puzzle pieces, spectral splinters of a soldier’s worn and tattered soul. In my endless dance with entropy I must rescind my sentience, the sickness that I know.""Lustrous lines obscured by opaque blinds -