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Jagged new moon of remorse
Roils riled mindflesh
Glares down from a private sky
Raining baleful ore
Lodestones for obsession, ingested
Burnished by the working
Of memoryβs maudlin hands
Burning bolus of guilt
Scallops tender heartflesh
Leaves scars whispering secret tongues
Compressed for years
Deep within my pit of a chest
Oh, prideful silence
Suffocate this unseen ache
Cruel ruby of sorrow
Time-ripened survivor
Bound up in my gut
No crimson wisdoms rise
From your mirrored depths
Just bloodied refractions
Of what I have done
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Song Of Embers
09:05
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In the end, you always remembered
That first moment so clearly
When you knew by the cold in your bones
That time was running short
Some subtle scent burning on the wind
Blown in from flayed continents
Echoes in ash of abandoned souls
Singing: βyou too will join usβ
The beasts and birds fled, but you stayed
Conceited child, you prayed
The bonds are all broken
The spirits are loosed
To ravage the failing land
And alight in the parched trees
No bargains to broker with flame
No laws to forfend against flame
No mercy to plead for from flame
Just the heat, then the dark
Then the dark
There, in your scorched grave
You learned at last to change
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Now you learn what you are made of
What grinding hours you may endure
The true depths of your dedication
To purity
Self-negation: the highest ethic
Stone brow and clenched jaw mark the pure of faith
As you bring forth the dream, commit your body
In silence
Now you learn what you are made of
What grinding hours you may endure
The true depths of your dedication
To clarity
Cast away indulgence, all unnecessary things
All compromise that binds you to the veil
Divide the crowds as a stone in a river
Unmoving, smooth, and blank
Surrender yourself to the will that stirs within
Deafen yourself to the noise of temptation
Deny yourself, for there is no self to deny
Complete yourself in oblivion
Mourn not for what is lost in the world without
Where the air itself is rot, it is a triumph to burn
And only sorrows fill the skin that you so long to shed
Now you learn what you are made of
What grinding hours you may endure
The true depths of your dedication
To release
Annihilate yourself
Bring forth the dream
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The Leech Called Shame
07:49
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For an instant, I hesitated
As you cowered beneath me
My limbs coiled for violence, but
Some weakness pleaded: mercy, mercy
But the blow fell
The wound opened
My path was chosen
Forever
The blow fell
The rift rent wide
No forgiveness
No rapprochement, never
In a secret cathedral given to cruelty
I enshrine the livid memory
Of your face twisted in disbelief
Of your form wracked with agony
The blow fell
The bones shattered
My malice sang
With pleasure
The blow fell
The light went out
No remorse
No redemption, never
The leech called shame set upon me
Leapt from your wreck to my flesh
But it no more feasts upon me
For I seized up its body
And ground it into the dust
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Valediction Prayer
10:08
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Keep those ravaged joints churning
For just one more mile
It used to feel so easy
When the body seethed with life
Bidden by a vibrant mind and guided
By eyes that still accepted light
But that was some other man, forgotten
Buried by weathered hands
Stiff and arthritic, rigid with calluses, woebegone
With the residue of their trespasses
In service to that withered usurper
Who lurks in the mirror alone
One last task remains
Before your wretched husk
Defy the grip of senescence
Go bravely unto your death
And in this lonely valediction
The ultimate chance to atone
To be released from all your sins
May your final chapter record your reclamation
May this broken journey make you whole in the end
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A clouded memory
Of salt and surrender
And the flailing limbs of a child
Caught in the undertow
Reaching across the decades
With claws of silt, it seizes me
In the moment you needed me most
My will dissolved like the foam
From the faraway shore
I heard you calling me
You were sinking beneath the waves
And I did nothing
Bobbing like jetsam, gasping for breath
But so sure of salvation from the brine
From the faraway shore
I heard you calling me
You were sinking beneath the waves
And I stood frozen
As the swell took you, at last you hated me
For the conceit of strength, when in the end
I was so weak
I heard you calling me
You were sinking beneath the waves
And I did nothing
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Weeping Sores New York
Melancholy death/doom featuring members of Pyrrhon, Seputus, & Tchornobog.
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