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O spiralling night

Guide my feet surely forward

Through the teeming dark

It begins again

As it ended once before

The fate of destruction is the joy of rebirth

The crimson water

The tumulting clouds

At the trembling edge of the earth

The seas will rise

The skies asunder

The earth will crumble

Beneath our unworthy feet

God is real

He is here now

And His fury hath no equal

Wings

As wide as the horizon

What horror we awakened here

A colder, darker sun is rising

Radiating with despondence and fear

Beset by legions are we

At the red dawn

This new era of plague

Its fabric interlacing

Manifold iniquities

Quietus untold

A lament for the matron

Coronach coruscant

A threnody enamelled with hoarfrost

Thy blood and cross bestowed

My scourge, my saviour

As the waves heave and subside

Arc discharge wreathes from your ire

Until we meet again

Every failure always leads

To these empty, snow-swept streets

Eternally

Our hope is fragile

And we cling to it

Like filthy bedsheets

But I abjure

I am so fucking tired of cowering

Prostrate, groveling

Before the vagaries of providence

By the power solemnly vested in me

By my maker

I plant my feet in dissent

Dark arms reach skyward

With bone white fingers

And I see your face

In the light of the open sky

The end came and left us

And still, we linger

I swear I won’t let go

I’ll pare away at the threads of this night

Save me

Raise me up

Take my hand

I swear that I won’t let go

Adrift

Forsaken

I watched it all

Come down

And swore

To silence