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Your chill, down the spine

Freezing, at the feet

Barren, in the trees.

Yet there is something

Enduring, pervading

Silence in everything

I could stand here

For ages and breathe

Be, Until there is nothing

Nothing, but we

I light the inner candle

Igniting centered vigil

Ashen hallowed offering…

Flame eternal, unfading

All shame, Transfigured

In a moment…

Purified, through pain

And suffering,

The name, I chant beneath,

A whisper…

I. AM.

Haunted, Undaunted

We chalice, the overcast heavens

the skin twins the color

of fang, talon and bone

the eye rolls back fully black

In lack

Beating, seething.

where the light dis-eases

downpresser grinding dustly

dusk of soul

dark night of mind

spirit in the mercy temple

where the water wheel pours

Your chill, down the spine

Freezing, at the feet

Barren, in the trees.

Yet there is something

Enduring, pervading

I. Am.