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Thanateros; I engorge thee in throes of lust and motionlessness

Tandem force to tremble nations in thy fiery ocean's caress

I call thee forth out of myself and (from) afar I draw thee near

Louder and louder thy crimson waves keep crashing in my ear

Blood moon lit trysts at the shore of the thresholds where corpse pallid lovers swoon

Untimely widdershin waltzing 'pon beaches that lead to an unmarked tomb

An epitaph spoke through the mouths of theatrical masks at the cusp of a dream

Barbarous words were imprinted therein as enigmatic emberous phosphene

And drawing near the canvas of demaphyr

Where nymphomanic witches dance

And fornicate before the starry gate

Climaxing in Thanaterotic trance

I joined them there, bewildered thence

Partook of their elixir and burned a strange incense

A star-studded earth; amorphous was the altar stone

Upon which I lay face first in silence deafening

And there within that silence many nameless faces groaned

Mine intent was written

And cast through the angles nine

Mercury requited with a Sulphur sign

Mine intent remitted

And thrust to the annals of time

In the dark committed as a star enshrined

High 'bove austere mountains casting it's light over all with its far reaching rays

Stirring awake from this livid and vivid vision unfolding in manifold ways

Nighttime befell the soul ageing it gracelessly- mere minutes as years

So sweet was the bitterness tasted in the tides of Hir transformative tears

From those tears surged

A tremendous vision and a voice imparting unto me

Like a crack between the worlds, reminding subtly

"See me not as the gate but a pair of twin keys"

Mine intent cast inward

As a lance of sacrifice

Undistorted, mirrored and anointed thrice

With the blood seen clearer

And stolid t'ward virtue or vice

As formless fire and determined ice!

{From deep wells; endlessly-

Spiralling helically

Seemingly opposed

Diametrically

Ne'er thou wert singularly

Though'n dynamic unity

Death's stillness- passionately

Breathing force into ecstasy}

Now in a cosmic waltz the voluptuous harlet

With wide grinning death- White, Black and Scarlet

Art the energies whorling in twine

Within the chaotic web of time

Out through this web this litany sung

And through the high halls of infinity is hung

The severed head of abstention

O, joy and revulsion- one in this ascension

In coming to know no god to be found

But the juggernaut of nature unbound

And the lashing waves of chaos; unstable

Those forces abound that dwarf us in their cradle

Agios Thanateros