Born - baptized in salt and sap
Snared - a hallowed skein of stars
Awakened - the halcyon dream dissolves
Forgotten - the void in silence calls
Comatose - a divine state
Ink and spear procreate
Frosted serif - hide crimes past
Opal illusion - in re-flec-tions of the ash

Decrepit slave to blind overlord
Rapture traced in arcane rime
Natural order catechized
Prostrate in static longing
By thy grace our pallor regained
"Nigh or now" - the truth's the same
Sedating all with yellow grin
Crowned in knowledge - but forever robed in sin

I, on the precipice
Take a step in stagnate haze
Loosen my constricting grip
And cracked seeds fall from my fingers
Feed - pick bones clean
Silent ascension with body serene
Twisted locks and meal-ground teeth
Eternal unrest in a withered nest

Wisdom wanes with waxing pride
He falls from sense to conceit
Decrepit slave to blind overlord
Rapture traced in arcane rime