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Hopeless

Now sworn to sadism, infernal twins

You are the longed-for shadow

Not through a heart-rent pact or summoning

(oh how you wanted to believe)

A black and white womb, raw spirituality

It must lie in wait somewhere

Philosophies based in hatred, new only to you

They would sneer at your pale cruelty

How much mocking can you stand?

Lash out, hang yourself hollow as a rebellion

In ancient lies we strike crucified, labyrinthine

Lives of low-grade unending misery

Think of the age of our race

Lifelust, love spreads towards our hearts

We must stay alive

The last refuge of evil in this life

Godlike, we will use you

Indifferent, eating worlds, lost in sighs

As fragile as legacied lace

Sepia-toned, born of all clinical depression

Folded from the matriarch within wrinkled hands

Gods within desperate minutes, behind black

silences

Slashes from knives of rites, their claustrophilia

Dead, anonymous, free

In lightless corridors far underground

An ancient aristocracy, listless, sleepwalking

Now a furnace opening in the sky

Waiting for the Rose Sun, an agony of rebirth

(oh God, create more life so we can strangle it)

Hopeless, godlike

Hopeless, it means...nothing

Die as a new god in dreams of fulfillment

Stabbed into the earth, crushed

Riven and ripped, bisected by anathema

Die