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From fire in these hands

Bound by iron

Lies, blood in sand

Light, from light refracted

Concealing it's original face

Among spectral clusters

Illuminating consent

"By oneself is evil done

(Defiled) By oneself, defiled

By oneself is evil left undone

By oneself, purified"

"...By yourself, atrophied"

A maelstrom of deceit

Lighting the sky, searing

The white of our eyes

Burdened by the burning veil

Minds without the weight of truth, led

By sightless eyes and sacred sound

Apathy reigns to thunderous applause

"By oneself is evil done

(Defiled) By oneself, defiled..."

By themselves, drowning in excess

They did not inherit this Earth

They became the beasts

And seized it for themselves

Endless lines of the young and old

Willfully doomed

By pockets lined in gold