Alterable Value, Parts A-E

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[Alterable Value A: Too Close] Release day I'm shaking It's incomplete Two thousand Now playing It's bittersweet I'm too close Heart tangled It shouldn't be Gentle please [Alterable Value B: Strange Hands] I start Again I can't move Like i did Whose Hand now Guides Me? [Alterable Value C: EDRT.EXE] Still some tread onward, deeper in Passing tiles grid-aligned Bought with time Too much time And soon they'll find That all of this is nothing new Abstractions realigned But no residue No holy glue Just what am I Really offering? And why should anyone Spend their fleeting time In my flimsy world? What good is this to them? It has allure If you're far away A roaring waterfall But no rocks to break No secret cave I hear a vile trembling groan Through magma, steel, and bone (a darkness that signals an end) I've died in here before New tileset but same old contours (but I don't think I got this far in) This doorway is unfamiliar I try stepping through but i can't (run.time. err.or E D R T . e x e) And then everything stopped one last time [Alterable Value D: Behind the Frame] Ruin at hand Pillars to sand Fractal cracked land Wallpaper peeks behind The Frame Little was gained Nothing was saved No I.N.I I ate your time Funneled your eyes Captured in brine Look at what's mine! Crashing down it went A leftover plate Reheated taste Not worth the wait Echoes of God Pointing to Christ Is that enough? I'm not so sure Coming down from this Pushing my junk Is this holy love? This should be costing me My Life [Alterable Value E: Save Your Changes] Feel cracking sulfate fingers Chip ancient food now fossilized It may not be your job It is the work of loving God and loving others Nurture that thoughtful impulse When met with angry bile boiling A kindness undeserved Upending violent earthly powers- This is what it means to conquer darkness as an instrument of Christ himself It all seems so mundane This power moving earth and heaven Someday you'll find Something's changed in you Your craft is important, true But there's something new Consuming you (it's love and joy and peace and Patience kindness and goodness Gentleness and faithfulness and Self-control, the spirit working) (love and joy and peace and Patience kindness and goodness Gentleness and faithfulness and Self-control, this is the Spirit working) Through worlds you're fabricating Or gentle words Earth-rending love can cascade out Add or subtract My values, change my Name Then re-anchor my hot spot just right Bounce me around Or draw a path for me Paint all over and rotate my sprite Make me opaque Perhaps EX-OR / AND / OR Totally disappear in your light I want to be how you imagine me