As i bask in the weight By the vessels of stone A river of iron Lumber and bone Praise and venerate As mountains sail its shore Nameless catacomb Oathless lore Abhor Abhor and recoil The dissonant tremmors Hurdle through the soil The screaching pillars howl and scream Bound to this foul regime And longships or rust and decay Drift in dismay Rapids clap with thunder Lash the sky with whips Sparkling currents drag Along the crewless ships Timeworn cinder roams On the back of vipers Speak to them Lisping in cyphers Waters stroke The supple reeds Braided steel Among the weeds Stringent tides Austere form A riverbed of mass A ravenous swarm Carved The face of the land In a subtle cut Putrescence expands Scarred Beyond disrepair Great sentinel Keeper of despair