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Palingenesis
03:04
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As sentient afterbirth
Ripped from the cosmic womb
I am scarred with awareness
Ripped from the void
In this coagulating
burden of perception
Reality becomes whole;
Overwhelming
So nauseous with possibility
Endless vistas before me
Scaling the highest heights
Plunged into deepest depths
Awash in the chaos of life
Born from the stillness of death
So nauseous with possibility
I’m crushed by infinity
Blind illumination
Gives light to consciousness
Recurring damnation
Precedes ceaseless darkness
From blessed unity I have fallen
Into a vessel of waking flesh
Unfathomable myriads of creation come and go in an instant
So void in purpose yet so rich in consequence
I saw cities of slumbering giants
I saw devils of men reveling in entropy
I saw wicked and fearsome forests
I saw skies ravaged by demons of ash and fire
I saw…
Everything and it meant nothing at all
The all unfolds beyond
A momentary lapse
In the nihilistic egg
To which all will collapse
So nauseous with possibility
Universal slavery
In cosmic nostalgia
I’ve felt this in the past
Circled to the future
I meet amnesia’s grasp
Into waking flesh I descend
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3. |
Nyctohylophobia
06:18
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Choking, frantic, terror sets in
Beyond, the branches sunlight grows dim
Horrifying
Sunset summons my psychosis
Twilight to nightfall, colors all fade
Alone in darkness, sanity frays
Paranoia
The roots and branches, a verdant cage
Creeping, and hanging, gallows-like vines
Thorns, and bramble, choking my mind
Phantoms calling
I look, discover nothing behind
I know, I am stalked, something unseen
Lurking and watching, through moon-kissed leaves
Predatory
Blackness, surrounding, pursuing me
Fear is all consuming
Is there no salvation?
Nyctohylophobia
Corrupts my soul
Ravaged by tangled roots
Molested by the leaves
As I fly through this hell
Beyond reason
Lost in the dark unknown
I succumb to panic
Webbed in sheer hopelessness
My heart pounding
Thoughts endlessly racing
Filled with visions of death
This is how it all ends
Lost in these dark...
woods...
Bury my hope beneath brush and stone and mud
The moon as my witness, watching from the inky black above
Demons of despair rip apart my sanity
Scattering the pieces like fallen leaves on an autumn wind
Yet through the canopy of my anguish… a savior comes
Luminous rays sting my weary eyes
Light breaks through the branches and I give pause
The dawn comes.. But I know...
Though the sun is rising
There is no salvation
Nyctohylophobia
Ever present
Night will return once more
Transforming the forest
Into twisted shadows
Inevitably
Just a pyrrhic vic’try
Survival means nothing
Doomed to live this nightmare
Forever more
Fear is all consuming
Is there no salvation?
Nyctohylophobia
Corrupts my soul
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4. |
Pyrrhic Victories
02:12
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5. |
Canopy of Ash
09:08
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I ride forth and wage my war on monsters
Liberating man from total darkness
My sword, the wrath of god
My shield, the weight lf truth
My foe, all things that crawl beneath
Fiendish hounds and cretins of the woodland
Serpents, scourges, to the kingdom of man
Their shapes, so myriad
Their hordes, endless in spite
Their doom, my glistening steel
Monstrous blood is my sacrament
Redeemed through acts of grace
Baptized in acts of war
I am a champion of light
Legend tells of a great adversary
A serpent of fire on grim wings carried
Its jaws, the grip of earth
Its - breath, the winds of hell
Its reign, a blight upon the land
This wicked beast must be destroyed
Monster! I fear thee not
Demon! Be excorsiced
Dragon! Perish beneath my blade
At last I come to the edge of the land
Greeting destiny with sword in my hand
Our fate, now intertwined
Our duel, shall purify
At last, justice will be done
Down from the mountains the demon soars
Grand reptilian wings unfolding in its flight
Descending from a canopy of ash and smoke
The beast meets me on a field of cinder and bone
And my courage...
Dies!
What womb of hell hath birthed this beast?
What curse of fate has led me here?
Here I die, all for naught
Mighty wings knock me from my horse
I try to flee on trembling legs
A blast of fire as I retreat
Reduces my proud mount to ash
Stumbling I meet the embry ground
As serpentine eyes pierce my soul
Its maw of rot clamps ‘round my waist
My split body paints the earth with blood
My own blood is my sacrament
Exiled, through acts of grace
Unmade, in acts of war
I am man broken by the dark
Bleeding out upon my bed of brimstone
Broken, beaten forgotten and alone
I’ve failed failed to save this land
I’ve failed to save myself
Oh god , have mercy on my soul
There is no peace in the blackness that takes me
A grim familiarity
I rise above this life
I fall beneath my death
Awake enduring all again
No…
No...
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Ophiolatreia
07:02
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Light from above, Darkness from below
These are illusions of perception
The tree whose branches kiss the heavens
Has its roots in the depths of hell
“The unlike join together-
And from differences results the most beautiful harmony”
All is reconciled
All is redeemed through impermanence
I wield the caduceus of Will
Whose serpents are named “Instinct” and “Gnosis”
I am Ouroborous carved in flesh
I am causality
I am life
I am Ouroborous carved in time
I am eternity
I am death
I am beast! Shackled and enslaved by blessed Instinct
I am Ouroborous made undone
I am tranquillity
I am entropy
I am divine! Released and made free through cursed Gnosis
Oh thousand-named Serpent
Known within the hearts of all
Prince of the depths
Sovereign of churning seas of subconscious
Let me commune with venom
Pull me below
So that I might witness
Manifestation of my truth
As I shed the skin of this life
To this life I shall return
Recurring eternally
To impose my will
I impose my will!
Through the pain of countless births
Through ecstasy of countless deaths
Fractured by creation
Made whole by the void
The Serpent encircles all
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Wandering
03:14
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The all begins
As it all ends
Forever in motion
Again and again
All pain to endure
All pleasures to taste
Devoid of purpose
Devoid of waste
All space and all time
All reality
I will be you
And you will be me
Consuming the self
The rise and the fall
The birth of the serpent
Which encircles all
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