I meant for this piece to have more metaphors, I'll add them as I go. The first 6 of you or so that replied didn't get who I was describing, so I tried to make it clearer.

I come from the land where the sun never rises

No stars ever fill the sky at night
No moon guides me by its light
Here have I found no heavenly delight
For the sun never rises in this endless night

Umbrarum hic locus est, somni noctisque soporae:
Where has my shadow gone?

My lover is the barren sands
With birds for eyes and feet for hands
Forever drifting in the flawless dreams of man
Hear thou the cries from the burning land.

This is the land of shades and dreams.
Per me si va l'etterno dolore.

I am the man of the setting sun
Who in the sign of the ram has run
Among the lost whose deeds undone
The redemption of man is not yet won.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust,
And these grains of fire that trickle through my hands.



Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.

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