The Faustian Alchemist

There among the broken columns
Mutilated sculptures
Deep under the marble demons
Desolated charnels

I found her entombed
All withered and hardened
Veiled maiden of halcyon days
Sleeping in her golden shrine

All shall love her and despair
All shall kneel before her throne

I drown in her eyes
I weep before her grace
The monarch of the moon and stars
The queen of nighttime realm

I brought her into my chamber
Wreathed her in hexes
Anointed with milk and balms
Bathed her in blood of oxen

I sacrifice my servants
Immolate in furnace
Cast my dearest ones in fire
Relinquish my accursed soul

I drown in her eyes
I weep before her grace
The monarch of the moon and stars
The queen of nighttime realm

And she will rise before me
Now in her restored might
The devastating glory
The all-beholding eyes

The touch of divine fingers
Eats deep into my flesh
One searing kiss of serpent
Before the blackness falls

I drown in her eyes
I weep before her grace