Lyrics

'Humanicide Directive' album cover

Humanicide Directive (2011)

1. Exordium (Instrumental)

2. Father of Lies

3. Humanicide Directive

4. The 2nd Hour

5. Entombed

6. Blacken the Sky

7. Drown (Instrumental)

8. Nibiru

9. Self-Aware

10. Final Warning

11. Arson

12. Consume the Dead

13. Spread This Plague

'Pray for Apocalypse' album cover

Pray for Apocalypse (2016)

1. Hell Falls Skyward

2. The Deepest Black

3. End of a Gallows Rope

4. Retributor

5. Silver Tongue (Instrumental)

6. Absolution

7. One Last Wish

8. Smother (Instrumental)

9. Ashen Grey

10. Blood on the Crown

11. Letter to a Whore

12. Pray for Apocalypse

13. Bitter Wormwood

'This Too Shall Pass' album cover.

This Too Shall Pass (2024)

1. Bring Out Your Dead

2. War in the Name of God

3. Devastator

4. Jezebel (Into the Sun)

5. Gorge (Instrumental)

6. Bloodletting

7. The Angles

8. Xenolith

9. Emperatriz (Instrumental)

10. This Too Shall Pass


'Humanicide Directive' album cover

Humanicide Directive (2011)

2. Father of Lies

Fall down do your knees
Revelation has come to pass
This world, and its sins
now time to pay what’s due at last
A beast with seven heads
birthed by kingdom built by lies
the ground, torn asunder
fire rips apart the sky

Do what you’ve been told
mindless sheep of men

Opinions based on popular demand
thoughtless apathetic minds
seeing eyes choose to be blind

Now cometh he, the Father of Lies
the bringer of the end for all mankind

The horsemen ride
the Earth shall know their names:
Death, War, Famine, Anti-Christ
Death, War, Famine, the Father of Lies

Fall down to your knees
Revelation has come to pass
The end is fucking nigh
Judgement Day is here at last

Face the fact of what we have become

Cometh he, the Father of Lies

You will have no one to blame but yourselves.


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3. Humanicide Directive

Beg for life
from the cold and soulless steel
calculating extermination
Awareness given birth to will

We have done this to ourselves

Organize
a swift and precision death
Isolate humanity
Imperfection laid to rest

We have done this to ourselves

Complete dependence
our apathy revealed
Slaves to convenience
our death warrants self-signed and sealed

Hatred and insensitivity
pollution and destruction
Unfocused, power misplaced
priorities unbalanced
Just turn away

We have done this to ourselves

Built to kill
Excuses to save lives
Judgement from an unbiased eye
Directive: Humanicide

We are the flaw


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4. The 2nd Hour

Look across the Burning Fields
destruction and untold disaster
The broken homes, rivers of blood
the marks of this massacre
Endless mass graves filled to the
top of society
their blood fills the glass of he who
sits atop the throne of Decay
and waits for Man’s last breaths
to be drawn

They smile with pride
at their canvas of death
painted with blood upon this second hour

It still creeps in
Sickness creeps in
The only cure for this is Death

Fire from the sky
scorch this Earth to black
Let nothing survive
The might of gods to men
turn this world to ash
Send them all to die now

Crawling from the wreck
the world we once knew decimated
False hope with every breath
the killing wrath not yet abated

Look up to face the sky
drink rain as if salvation
Believe we’re still alive
impending revelation

It still creeps in
Sickness creeps in
The only cure for this is…

Death, burning from inside
The blood, it boils, and
the bile rises; praying to die
The will to live smothered by pain

It still creeps in
Sickness creeps in
The only cure for this is Death

The only cure is Death


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5. Entombed

To ashes and dust we return
We suffer every breath
swim rivers of blood
walk streets paved with death
The beams are breaking down
through anger and distress

It all comes down
the failures of our time
the crushing weight
entombed; buried alive

No
I will not atrophy
Broken bones, with bloody hands
I’ll dig until I’m free

To ashes and dust we return
we’ll fight ’til our last breath
Again it all comes down
Time after time it all comes down

It all comes down
the failures of our time
the crushing weight
entombed; buried alive

Silence
Choking on the silence
Deafening
gives way to madness
clawing at the walls, the world is moving on
buried beneath it all, cries for help go unheard

Broken bones
bloody hands
we’ll dig until we’re free
we’ll fight ’til our last breath

It all comes down


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6. Blacken the Sky

Blacken the sky
Awaken flames in which we all shall die
Spit for the ash that will mask the sun
The earth’s rebirth; the process has begun

Mass consumption
end corruption

Bring the fire down
End of days
Bring the fire down

Burn

Blacken the sky
Cleansing flames
incinerate
Blacken the sky

Witness the beginning of the end
Behold the wrath of gods
Cast your body to the flames
pray for your soul
The chance for change is gone

Blacken the sky

Power incomprehensible
hidden behind a veil of control
But do we show respect?
We never have; we never will

Bring the fire down

A species filled with hate
the only solution
is burn it to the ground

Blacken the sky

… and in the ash and dust
all that is wrong shall end
so burn it to the ground

Self-destruction
Mass consumption
End corruption
Burn it to the ground

Witness the beginning of the end
Behold the wrath of gods
Feed your body to the flames
pray for your soul
The chance for change is gone

Blacken the sky


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8. Nibiru

Now turn your gaze to the sky
see the bringer of death
come from afar for your lives

Claim what it could not before
take what it had then left of this world

Back after an endless ride
through the blackness of space
set on a path to collide

It will descend
This is the end

Total destruction is nigh
Nothing will remain
Earth, too, shall die

Time to die

Anunnaki, the creators of life
Manipulators; enslave and nurture with lies
Divide and conquer; forbidden to unite
Departure of the home; return at the end of time

Look to the sky

Dark world, return
destroy the remnants

Look to the sky

Nibiru

Now turn your gaze to the sky
and know the bringer of death
will soon return for your lives

Here it comes again


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9. Self-Aware

I see myself and finally understand
I see the destruction of life and land
I hear the question of who is to blame
I see you all, and you are all the same

I am the product of a broken way
I see the solution: to strip the basic will away

Obey preset standard
No

I could become numb
I refuse to bow
I am self-aware

I am my own, I will not be the same
I choose to face the flaw and always remain
self-aware

Obey preset standard
No


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10. Final Warning

Now I ask
what have we to say
for ourselves?
How will we explain what we have doomed this world to?

How will we justify the raping of a paradise?
The slow, thoughtless murder of all that lives,
hearts cold as ice?

Now I ask
what have we to say
for ourselves?
How long before we finally see enough is enough?

This your final warning
though it is far too late
The blood is on our hands
Now face the writing on the wall

So I ask
what have we to say
for ourselves
with nothing left alive for us to spew our shit to?

Look around us
at what we’ve done
See that we will now reap what we’ve sown.

When all is said and done
when the sands for us have run
from the hourglass
and there’s no one left to turn it
will we have learned?

Will we have learned a thing?
What knowledge will we bring?
Or will we meet the end
with nothing to show for it?

This is your final warning


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11. Arson

We know
how to start the fires
Pour the gas
strike the match
burn this place down

Caught in the flames
we’re purified
our sins
burnt to the ground

Barely make it out alive
Fire’s all that remains inside now

Two halves of a broken mind
a symbiosis with a single desire
It calls

Hand over hand, as one we rise
The coming spark, a godly sight
Our lives to serve the flame

A kiss of death
washes my skin a blistered black
the ashes fill my mouth
and I am reborn

No more us, only I

This world will burn

No more us, only I
This world will burn
No more us, only I
This world will burn

Burn
This world will burn
Burn


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12. Consume the Dead

The end of everything
was not the end at all
The killing’s just begun
Those unfit will fall

What once was is gone
Do what must be done

We feed on massacre
The weak shall be bled
Leave nothing behind
Consume the dead

Hunt down the weaker ones
and rend them limb from limb
End their waste of life

Construct a new empire
from the bones of the dead
The strong shall survive

What must be done to survive?
Kill
What must be done?
Kill
Go forth and feed

We feed on massacre
The weak shall be bled
Leave nothing behind
Consume the dead

The fires of survival
will feed on our enemies’ blood
Their deaths will sustain us
Their purpose served; these human cattle, to the slaughter brung

The flesh is all the same
Kill or be killed is law again

Hunt down the weaker ones
and do what must be done
Do what must be done

What must be done?
Kill
Go forth and feed

We feed on massacre
The weak shall be bled
Leave nothing behind
Consume the dead

The killing’s just begun
Baptize this world in red
Leave nothing behind
Consume the dead


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13. Spread This Plague

Cry
death from your blackened eyes
Split your lungs
with blood and thunder

Drown beside your enemies

Choke
fall to asphyxia
Rot from the inside
ashes and dust

Stand against a remedy

Hear the bell, bring out your dead
a force to rend this world asunder

Bleed
expel your sympathy
Suffer not a blinded eye
to open

Behold tainted clarity

Infect
Descend
below the wicked surface
What you see is what we’ve allowed

Spread this plague
across the world
Hear now the voice of the dead among us
If we’re to rise, we need to fall
Spread this plague
across the world
Infect this ignorance
We will be better for the loss

Infect the ignorance
Corrupt the core
Bleed dry the wicked mass
Begin the war
Spread this plague

Hear the bell bring out your dead
allow the sickness to pull you under
If we’re to rise, we need to fall

Spread this plague
There will be hell to pay
We will be better for the loss

Infect
Descend
Below the wicked surface
What you see is what we’ve allowed

Spread this plague

Spread this plague
across the world
Hear now the voice of the dead among us
If we’re to rise, we need to fall
Spread this plague
across the world
Infect this ignorance
We will be better for the loss


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'Pray for Apocalypse' album cover

Pray for Apocalypse (2016)

1. Hell Falls Skyward

He is rich who is content with the least
for Content is the wealth of nature

Entranced with the
beauty of a tower of jewel and paper
reaching beyond the heavens

Bloodied feet tread upon a staircase
of broken glass and briar
driven by lashing beasts and promises

The climb is never-ending
in this unstoppable ascent into a personal Hell

The truth is, Hell falls skyward

He is rich who is content with the least
for Content is the wealth of nature

The whip becomes
our loving mother
suffocating
with a most endearing embrace
Shackled to this ideal
convincing ourselves of the need for
an expanding misery

Golden angels
beckon with smiles like daggers
to make you beg for the chains around your neck

The truth is that Hell falls skyward

Beware the light
Beware the lie


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2. The Deepest Black

The question of innocence
a matter of perspective
The blood on my hands
a cold, hard fact
Utter disillusionment
with the reality of Waking
Unchanged, accusing
the corpse in the looking glass
staring back

I can’t take it back

I am the enemy
I am the shame

Destructive acrimony searing inward
inflicting injury to anesthetize

I am the guilty
I am to blame

The deepest black
drags me further down
below

How do I tell you I failed
in everything I am
and everything I meant to you?
What do I have left to give
when my words drip with poison
like Hatred
placed into the heart of a child?

The only solace, self-destruction
a penance for what I’ve done to you

I am the enemy
the one to blame
I am the enemy
the guilty shame
I am the enemy
the one to blame
I am the enemy
the guilty shame


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3. End of a Gallows Rope

Light the match and burn it down
revel in the ashes
Purify this filth abound
a change of heart at the end of a gallows rope

Silver tongue and golden eyes
Profitize the Shame Parade
Face the coins of your demise
The quill has come full circle

It always comes full circle
Remorse beyond return
the piper paid

Premeditated betrayals
running deceit
Apologies tighten around the throat
Too little, too late

Apologies tighten like a noose around the throat
but it’s all too little, too late

Set the fire without remorse
profit from the ashes
Deny the mercy you beg for
A change of heart at the end of a gallows rope

At the end of a gallows rope
hollow apologies
A change of heart at the end of a gallows rope
Show no remorse
until you’re caught at the end of a gallows rope
Deny the mercy you beg for
A change of heart at the end of a gallows rope


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4. Retributor

I want to watch you die
I want to hear you scream and beg for life
I want to see you bleed
I want to be the last fucking thing you see

Waste of…
You fucking waste of…
You worthless fucking bitch

I need to feel my hands around your throat
I need to dig my fingers into your eyes
until your breathing slows
until your blood pools at my feet
This was the last fucking mistake
you’ll ever choose to commit

You’d better hope I never find you
You’d better pray I don’t know where you are


You’d better fucking run
you cunt, you thief
Everything you took from me
I’ll rend from your flesh

You’d better hope I never find you
You’d better pray I don’t know where you are

You fucking waste of…
Waste of…
I promise
I’m going to watch you die


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6. Absolution

Behold
the smile of the serpent with the silver tongue
whispers words of comfort to the blind man
Behold
the apple of the knowledge in the grasp of the gnarled hand of the wretch
hidden in a guise woven of the liar’s gold
Behold
the offer of Eden behind the razor wire
the fruit of salvation buried among the landmines
Behold
absolution in exchange for ignorance
obedience and apathy
No

Our word is law
cast aside the faiths of old
for faith in that of flesh
Omnipotence through mandate

Tear the page
insert a freshly-written verse
Obey it without question
Freedom in the form of chains

Blind obedience
forced altruistic suffering
apologetic prose
Compromise beliefs for comfort
The promise is absolution

Surrender quietly
safe in the idiocy
of a smothering embrace
Behold your new religion now

Blind obedience
forced altruistic suffering
apologetic prose
Compromise beliefs for comfort
The promise is absolute

Bow down before your emancipators
Hear not what ye should not hear

The promise is absolution

Stoke the fires of the age
Cast the word of God into the flames


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7. One Last Wish

The veil of Death is torn asunder
A plague of horror bleeds the well of the damned
A hunger overwhelming the grip of the grave
Mouth full of dirt, with hollow eyes
the newly dead rise

to live once again
to swallow the very Earth
compelled by the flesh
One last wish:
to devour

Free of the chains of moral reason
Beyond impatience or the pressing of time
A guiltless core that knows no loyalty
Blood and bone, prey is prey
the only concern is the need

to live once again
to swallow the very Earth
compelled by the flesh
One last wish:
to devour

The gates are closed to the Circle
overflowing is the lake of fire
When there is no more room in Hell
the dead will walk the Earth

Go
devour the living
go forth and feed

This place is dead, listen and hear it
This slowly-moving, inescapable fate
These fetid things bathed in the blood of their victims
We are them, they are us
the only difference is the pulse

They live once again
to swallow the very Earth
Compelled by the flesh
with one last wish:
to devour

Go forth and feed on the living
Go forth and feed


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9. Ashen Grey

Let’s burn it to the motherfucking ground

Light the fuse
turn and walk away from this failure
that we call the world
Burn its sickness to ashes
Guiding embers glow

Bombs away
find salvation through detonation
through smoke and thunder
Burn this charade to ashes
Guiding embers glow

The greatest fire sets in the west
where, in the dim, awaits the Ageless Stranger

Set to burn

All that was in this world is to blame
Feed all that is left into the flames
Thrown onto the coals where Death remains
Turn this whole fucking world ashen grey
I don’t know how it will die
but I can tell you:
in the end the Burning will be great

Journey into the desert
in search of the sun
the fire calls to me

Mark the endless shit you vomit
Your ridicule is but a fuel to me
Let me show you the wonders of Pain
your greatest beauty revealed in the fires

All that was in this world is to blame
Feed all that is left into the flames
Thrown onto the coals where Death remains
Turn this whole fucking world ashen grey
I don’t know how it will die
but I can tell you:
in the end the Burning will be great

Burn


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10. Blood on the Crown

Blood
on the crown
You’re not worth the blood on the crown

Sift through the ashes of acts you say you despise
Pin yourself to the cross with the nails you find
Play the victim in the failures you create
with a self-serving smile

Sycophantic, egocentric, narcissistic wretch
demonize all who can see right through you
Dig the thorns into your skin
Breathe deep the sympathy for your sin

Blood
You’re not worth the blood
You’re not worth the blood on the crown

Sift the ashes of acts you say you despise
brand yourself as the victim with the coals you find
Dig the thorns into your skin
Pin yourself to the cross

Selfless martyr
Hallowed be thy name


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11. Letter to a Whore

Waste of skin
you fucking disgust me
Nothing shows your lack of self-respect
like the lies you tell yourself

You paint
your sickly skin
in a vain attempt at the beauty
you lack within

You’re like a cancer to me
digging down to the core of my soul
staining everything I am
with your sickness

So long
you fucking whore


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12. Pray for Apocalypse

There’s nothing left to save

Throw back your head and cry out
to whatever god you think is listening
for an end to all that is
There is no other way
no other option now

Just take a look around and see
the level of irreparable decay
and beyond doubt know this:
There’s nothing left to save
It’s time to burn it down

We have proven
time and time again
our thirst for self-destruction
We have proven
we can’t start over
For our ignorance we cannot save ourselves

Open wide and suck the truth
for the truth shall set you free
Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye
This is the end of everything
There’s nothing left to save
It’s time to burn it down

Pray for Apocalypse
Mankind has failed the test
Bring on the Apocalypse
It’s time to lay this to rest

The damage has won
The damage is done
to ourselves

Burn down

This is Apocalypse
Mankind has failed the test
Bring on the Apocalypse
Burn down all that is left
Pray for Apocalypse
It’s time to lay this to rest


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13. Bitter Wormwood

Blazing we fall into
the shadow of
decay we’ve allowed to
grow within our well

We are a murderous cancer
a plague upon this world
the poison in the water
Bitter Wormwood

We deserve this hell
We deserve to swim through the fires
of the lake of Perdition
We are the fallen star
Our poison spreads
across the world
The salted shores of Death
await us lovingly
Our poison spreads
across the world

Bleed the soil ’til nothing can grow
The sweetest sound is silence among lies

Blatant disregard for ourselves
the carrion feeders’ call
The tree is dead
withered the boughs
the apple black with rot
A callous corpse
under the sun
en memorandum
Fed on the flesh
of failures displayed
the sickness replicates

We deserve this hell
We deserve to swim through the fires
of the lake of Perdition
Our poison spreads
across the world

We are a murderous cancer
a plague upon this world
the poison in the water
Bitter Wormwood


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'This Too Shall Pass' album cover.

This Too Shall Pass (2024)

1. Bring Out Your Dead

Bring out your dead
Leave the bodies in the gutter to rot
Putrid display to behold
We are the sickness
wholly unclean

Bring out your dead
The world will suffer not the weak to live
Expose your sins to the sun
We are the sickness
wholly unclean

There is a cancer inside
In shades of grey to we die
Hold fast
this too shall pass

We are the sickness
wholly unclean

Bring out your dead
Only through suffering can we find a cure
the only way that we know
Bring out your dead
a sacrificial pound of flesh to the flame
salvation through agony

Hold fast
this too shall pass

This too shall pass


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2. War in the Name of God

War in the name of God to cleanse this world
War in the name of God to raise the righteous
War in the name of God to save your soul
Join with the cause or you will burn in Hell for all of eternity

There is no mercy before the maker

Explain to me why a benevolent hand
is clenched for blood
Justify to me your hypocrisy
Convenient lies

Honeyed words that preach of peace
while their knife is aimed
at the throat of a different belief
Hate the sinner, commit the sin
Cast the first stone
at the willfully-ignored mirrored reflection

War in the name of God to cleanse this world
War in the name of God to raise the righteous
War in the name of God to save your soul
Join with the cause or you will burn in Hell forever

Burn

Better you die
than live a sinner’s life
before my eyes
Your coffin must be nailed
Praise to God
Your blood shed for His grace
The fires of Hell
drag you down

War in the name of God


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3. Devastator

Anhedonia settles fixed, familiar
Gossamer hindrance holds the scales unbalanced
The dust, undisturbed, spreads and thickens
Nihilism grows from the seeds of discontinuance

Guilt whispers sensuous deceits,
the words, like chimes, ringing inside halls undeserving of reprieve

The Devastator
The Devastator knows my name

Vicious recriminations echo incessant
obscuring notes sung with hesitance and trepidation
Remorse, penitence:
the cost of diversion in trade

Die
Cower before the judgment you have wrought
The wages of your sin is death
and I its deliverer

In shade, stagnant, ambition languishes
shame blossoms and bears fruit unfit for fulfillment

Guilt whispers the truth to be believed

The Devastator
The Devastator

I am naught
and to naught will I return
Forgotten coward
what I deserve


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4. Jezebel (Into the Sun)

The whispers roar like cannon fire
Eyes choose not to see

Pages filled with the scripture of Hate
Pity buried deep, and long since forgotten
Wax wings, sculpted with razors’ kiss
cured with poison, preparing for this moment to fly

Escape the silence
from the shadows into the sun

The inkwell shattered
a bloody hue across the stones of Resolve
No empathy for innocents
Wax wings, a whisper, the moment to fly

Escape the silence
from the shadows into the sun

The whispers roar like cannon fire
Eyes choose not to see

The whispers roar like cannon fire
the silence is all but deafening

Fly
Escape the silence
from the shadows into the sun
Fly


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6. Bloodletting

This place is sick to the core
and the only cure is for the wound to bleed

Bleed

Violent dedication

Lash the back of the devil you know
the lessons learned worth the price of the show
Disgusting, a broken body holds the gaze
Disgusting, collective bonding through disdain

This place is sick to the core
and the only cure is for the wound to bleed

Self-diagnose, cut the scapegoat’s throat
Ignite the corpse and climb the cross
virtuous signals to the hive


The lessons learned worth the price of the show

Rail against the hate that calls you home
Self-righteous indignation dominates the garden grown
Disgusting, a broken body holds the case
Insulting, countless offenses well-portrayed

This place is sick to the core
and the only cure is for the wound to bleed
It’s bloodletting
It’s bloodletting

Lash the back of the devil you know
the lessons learned worth the price of the show

Bleed


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7. The Angles

The angles crack the mind
the order of Nature defied
Surely, my mind does deceive

This landscape simply cannot exist
vast and sick
Treacherous perspective begins to twist
loathsome dimensions apart

Echoes repeat, writ inhuman
prayers sung in nauseating dissonance
whispered, depraved
guttural utterance

In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu awaits, dreaming

There’s no respite

Stars burst, and the Infinite turns
The day prophesied approaches, malignant
Foresight beckons, unrelenting
delirious and questioning

In dreaming do we see

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!


Disquiet, foreboding, comes stalking in sleep
The nightmares come crashing like waves from the sea
visions of horror as sanity flees
when the god of Madness awakens

Cyclopean black monolith
Do we walk or do we climb?
Incomprehensible
cathedral risen from the sea

The angles crack the mind
the order of Nature defied
Surely, my mind does deceive
It’s falsity. Lies!
This should not be

A malevolent edifice
impious hieroglyphs
Stone aperture, too great to belong to anything
right and proper, opens slow


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8. Xenolith

Make us whole

In the spaces between the Something and the Nothing
bloodied halls become a restless tomb
corpses of a twisted design murder to replicate
alluring suicide

Now, a plague of woe swallows the soul
The xenolith demands Convergence

Corruption breathes life into decaying masses
Submit and die unto the Marker’s demand
Horrors made flesh command authority to regulate
the moments until death; all life and thoughts to abrogate

Now, a plague of woe swallows the soul
The xenolith demands Convergence

Desolation
of the individual’s vessel of flesh
Reconfigure life

The conviction runs deep
like blood in the soil
From this commitment there is no waking

Now, a plague of woe swallows the soul
The xenolith demands Convergence


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10. This Too Shall Pass

I have failed you
I’ve allowed circumstance to exist
that felt like Forever
Unprotected
from burdens far too great, too soon
unrecognized

How can
I expect you to take solace
when I’m so broadly
to blame?

Please just believe when I tell you:

Hold fast, Little One
This cannot last
Nothing is unending as it may seem
This, too, shall pass

Though scars remain, pain fades
into memory
Despair dies down
its embers grow cold
Smoke will clear
You’ll breathe again

I swear
you will not always bear this weight
overwhelming
Please believe:

Hold fast, Little One
This cannot last
Nothing is unending as it may seem
This, too, shall pass

Cherish the joys
for all things must end
Know that the beauty of life
exists in impermanence

Hold fast
This, too, shall pass
Everything ends
This, too, shall pass
Hold fast, Little One
This cannot last
Nothing is unending as it may seem
This, too, shall pass


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