- Burning
Thoughts collide, raping shreds of sanity
Invading my mind through light and dark
A vision of beauty, spreading wings, envelope my soul
Breathing life, releasing the pain
Lighting flames upon a darkened path
Awaiting repreive, one image burns
- Chapel Of Burning
Alive here be another's choice
I return the gift to my maker
Relinquish the pain
Of the intimate stranger
Sing with golden tongue
For my brother's eternal rest
He was me and I was he
- Concern
Losing my grip on concern
The endless circle mocks my existence
Only sparks of beauty bind me to this place
The simplicity of doing-drowned
And now you know why I die
Ive found the fear deep inside
- Days Of Prayer
Standing before the door of the one I call god
My entrance has been denied- forever lost
Days of prayer are words wasted on the wind
If there is to be an answer then give these talons a grasp to hold
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Burning sun of hope
A blackened path in my way
- Destiny Falls To Ruin
I sat upon grassy linen
Looking far into my thoughts
Among deep and dark forests
Lining a hazy grayish loch
And there inside foreshadow dealt
A vision to perception
A prophetic form of imagery
Manifest in shadows obscure
- Dream Of Immortality
Watch for me
In darkness turn
For as shadow I shall return
After touch with spirit world
However there I may be hurled...
The dream of immortality
Are we drifting in shades of nowhere
- Elysium
"Slipping forward
With a propensity for madness
Tethered but taut
Reality at the tip of four fingers
Or is it insanity?
Yesterday was my tomorrow
But today is my problem
Do I know what I know?
- Embrace
Pieces shattered and separate
Deep in detestation
Numbing imagery
Slithering, seething of my spiritless soul
Desperation, oh it permeates my consciousness
Talons of hysteria embrace my delirium
- Empty Faith
And by the hands of my god I wash myself clean
With the rivers below
That flow into my mind
Falling through the abyss of life
The shadow that is mine engulfs
Pulling at - bending - My realization
(No this cannot be)
- Essence of Black
Essence Of Black
Numbing the pain
Pathetic creations of unresolve
Pain controls from within
The dark knows me well
Draining my essence as I sit in silence
Walking empty through the rest of my days
- Falling
I walk in the sands of Eden
Where the blue pyramids sleep
I close the world behind me
For my future soul to keep
longer than I want to know them
Spawning dirges fill my veins
A ritual reaction
- Haunting The Obscure
"Emerald figures shining in darkness
Forty souls are locked in stone
A thousand eyes open to see
The wolves of ruin devouring me
Dying hearts of unkown voices
leave my hope under fallen stars
Their beating echoes only pain
Their blood red lips call out my name
- Is There
Is There…
A burning hate that grows
As the one’s released from within, within my sphere
Tomorrow brings only plight
Another day of nothing
“Praise be” to the one, the one that gives
- It Came Upon One Night
It came upon one night
When Nemesis besieged
Lightning streaked across the sky
And thunderclouds did scream
It came upon one night
On land the seas had turned
Typhoons swept with certain death
- Midnight Dreams
"Welcome to this world
Transformation supreme
I am sleepless from the power in my veins
My past is gone
Incantation serene
Entering the threshold of a pure disease
- Mirror Of Sorrow
In a blackened blur of crowding clouds
I dropped my sorrow among the leaves
I took my place as wise men do
As the storm prepared its release
Through raging winds and weeping skies
I sat in the loneliness of solitude
I washed my eyes in growing streams
- Opaque Divinity
The apostle awake
Inside a dream
Revealing what shall come to be
With strengthened sight
Tears of stone fell from his eyes
Paving paths than none should follow
Behold the Beginning of Sorrows
Behold that which ascends with doom
- Pain
I've seen the pain before
Teardrops in their eyes
Others that we've torn
To take away their pride
I've felt the pain before
Tearing skin and bone
To evil we conform
Weakness we have known
- Pawns of Anger
Distant faces
Cold dark eyes
Another lonely place to hide
False intentions
Vague disguise
The veil of fear you stand behind
Forbidden fruit
- Phantoms
I guess I just can't talk about the simple things
Something drives me further than that
Maybe like a cold desert wind
Maybe like a sinking ship
And I seem so alive in this skin
But i'm really empty inside
It's not something i like to explain
- Scent Of Death
Flesh peeled exposing the rotting scent of death
The center of damnation
Tears shed falling into the abyss
Sorrow wraps its arms
On knees I bend wounds enrapture
Breaking - writhing - God's pain eternal
Into oblivion once again - sights focus
- Seeds of the Desolate
Shifting silent shades
of seething thoughts abroad
Amuck in shallow graves
not of solid Earth
Silhouette charades
of cascading shattered walls
Confusing conscience craves
but we must not fall...
- Sightless
Paths illuminated by hell's fires
Floating onward to end's demise
Turn to see the once was
Turn to see what was
- The Final Sin
Ancient black and silent fire
Within your hearts creates desire
To covet far beyond your need
The embers of eternal Greed
Destroy the Earth and cloud the sky
Fill your chests with other's lives
A Midas curse - A deadly shroud
And "all for what?" I ask you now
- The Hourglass
Moments last to our closing eyes
No one gets out alive
The ring of truth bears no weight
Of prophesy none too late
The glassy eye of measured time
A witness to our mortal lies
On we stride our love behind
Too blind to see the other side
- These Are the Nameless
It's devastation that we've taken
Shaping form with faceless smiles
Laying to waste all the miles
And hours of memories like fading bells
Soil and sodden we kiss the ground
Below the nameless tears of trees
Weeping in their forgotten willows
- Together And Wither
The only answer is annihilation
Everything taken from the eternal fountain
Ungrateful beasts
Demanding more than should have ever been given
Blind to our own transgressions
We've condoned this atrocity
The problem only multiplies
- Tomorrows Dead
Awash in waves of darkness
Light creeping, unwelcome
Visions behind these eyes
They melt into rivers of death
A burning desire, rips and tears
Drifting endlessly, days pass
- Transcending Sentinels
I. Descent Of The Angels
II. Prologue To The End
We've been here through the all the circles
And lived with the godless tyranny
One day all of you shall be perfect
And understand this is to be
- Upon Within
Setting sunlight embraces my body
As I stand upon a precipice of death
Faceless as the dark descends
Reclaiming a once vivid soul
Torn from this plain, not ready yet
Taken into the ethereal
Visions never achieved, lifeless and broken
- Waiting For The Light
Sunlight fails you
The darkness falls
upon your - pale soft skin
Wet, dripping pain
bound by black
lucid dreams - from injected steel
- Where Angels Dare To Tread
Out of the sun appeared three men
Or so it seemed to be
Abram saw and rushed to greet
These godlike entities
Prepare a feast my chosen wife
That we may honor these
A festive mood soon turned to grief
When told their destiny
- White Ship
I was but a traveler
Floating endless through the sea
On the other side of knowledge
Through the pliancy of dreams
And voices there upon the ship
Spoke of radiant place's splendor
Beautiful shores with sands of gold
Wherein exists no torment or pain