Avert not thine eyes Thou art lost And cowardice becomes only the suicides The path revealed Raise up a rock And murder love The past is as real as a fabled dog That bites at it's own reflection Wanting more at the cost of all Thy plate is now The soul ebbs On this plateau Of inertia At the precipice Of nothingness But the ground is crumbling As trust falls to scorn Brought to our knees Before the king Crowned and kissed Entropy Assert divine right And as the hand of God Sever the tendrils of tenderness Thine tears be the salt That bring forth the thaw Of harrowed earth Of the pungency Of embattled airs And the dearth made flesh To offer love And consummate This black disunion Like disease we descend Upon the spirit And the body Of The Other Loving The Adversary Feed upon the flies That sing unsweet And harmonize With a broken song And the want of death In excelsis, glory be to the bereft Excess of mercy Betrays thine own collusion In the blood that is on every hand And spills from every wrist With kisses visit on the essence Stigmata of holy faithlessness The parable of Godly love The archetype of betrayal For every tale requires an enemy Rejoice and sing devotion Weave together thy crimson palms And exalt what cannot be redeemed