Through the brooding darkness
Fight against the tide
Slowly moving upstream
Towards the morning light

Dark is the water
Dark the misty air
Darker still my heart
That shivers in the breeze

Deceiving death itself
I travelled this far
Deep into the twilig

Hear the blackened call
Summoning the night
Hearken to the Moon
Majesty of skies

Armed with the sacred might
Wielding ancient lore
Guarded by the blackest words
I stand by this gate

I command and constrain thee
Oh spirits of the night
By him who spoke

Under domes of anguish, I dwell

Through the bleak and bitter night
Across the plains of blackened shards
I call your hallowed name
Bound by the shackles of time

Cathedrals of mourning I'll find
Cathedrals of mourning, now mine

The soaring pinnacles touching the

Infernal, terrestrial
Celestial, ever-changing

The skies dyed red now
Basking in crimson
And solemn silence
As midnight sighs

Welkin turning
The stars descending
Such frail magic
As blackness veils thy eyes

A vessel of a deity
Untouched beauty

Draw near and see now
Witness the things to come
Seven seals are broken
White throne depraved and stained

Behold the beast now
The lash of iron rods
Seven heads and ten horns
The reign of one thousand years

Celestial violence now upon your wretched church

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The woods whispered a woeful tune
Rustling leaves in autumn hues
The same eve that I found you there
Hauntingly fair, stranded and bare

The trees murmured a mournful hum
Lingering light from a dying Sun
When your ashen stare met mine
Wringing me tight, eyes hollow

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 be

The frail light of midsummer’s eve
The God-fearing and the pious sleep
Hour of witches and demons breaks
The lackeys of satan
In the woods await

Forgetting the Christ
And the word of God
Forsaking the parish
And the cleric’s rod
She hearkens to call
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