Mantle
The burden of this stone
Has left me alone
Pining to unearth this chasm
Each impasse
Gives rise to a new
Condemned to endure this pattern
Or is it just me
In unfolding symmetry
Consumed
Oubliette
Time binds
The Great Consumer
All love, all life
Is dust before it
Bastard kings, Empty thrones
Deluded
Blind public
Are scattered in the wind
Maybes, wheres, and whys
Echo throughout all skulls
Fear of never reaching light
As the night encroaches
Visions of the break
Of brighter carving
The adit to Idyll
Crushed beneath the wait
Starved of language
No speech for the interred
No grief, no light
No life, lurking beneath
Carve out the cell wall
Youth spent on the push
For the way occult
No light, into the deep
Mariana
Instrumental
Black Tide
Whispers from the darkness
Screams through the light
Crawling to the surface
Pulled back into
Whispers from the darkness
Flashes of life
Drifting to the stone lure
Naked and new. We were
Damned to this earth
An unjust reliance
Escaped, tunneled, subjected, Subdued
Left only with
Screams through the light
Eyes wide
Panic subsides
Rising waters
Claim their prize
Into the deep
The cold takes keep
Into the deep
Sleep
Serac
Instrumental
Contorta
Idyll’s abandoned
Lost
Gone gone gone
Gone is the flock
For denizens
Come before
Been stripped, wasted, left barren, undone
From underneath
To the peaks
The sandglass abides relentless pull
The mote and decree
The bound and the free
Fated for trials unending
Idyll’s abandoned
Lost
Forsaken for some fleeting beyond
For the mote and decree
The bound and the free
Beholden to being
Crawl onward
Sights ascending
The glass turns, the sand begins its fall
The pond reflecting
Paths well-worn
Tracks uncovered reveal
Shackles cast aside
Donned by the beholder
The long lost fetter returns
Diversion luring
Forever drawn in by
The ever-departing absolver
Reverie incites
The roving mind
To look beyond the ashen sky
All of time is slipping through these riddled hands
The artificer of utter ruin
Utter ruin wrought