1. I AM THE DARK

Aeons of darkest night
In shadows and in lux
Dark gnostic mind is god
Abraxas all is one

Archons control our realm
Rule planetary cage
In grim materia
Three hundred sixty five

Walking the path of the absurd
Wisdom is so far away
Guided by nothing we stumble on
Just a glimmer of divine spark to lead us home

In chains wallowing blind

I am the dark
I am the light
I am nothing
I am everything
I am the rain
I am the sun
I am the moon
I am the stars

Abraxas!
Horses of the sun
Abraxas!
Conscious and unconscious mind

Abraxas!
Embodiment of all things
Abraxas!
Good and evil one and the same

I am the day
I am the night
I am the remedy
I am the poison
I am the calm
I am the storm
I am everything
I am nothing

I am the dark


2. SORROW AND THE FROZEN SOUL

Lay your burden
Down
No need to carry it
Anymore

Silver white skies
Coldness
Frost on your doorstep
Snowed in

Resignation
Feel the release
Take your rest
Blissful death

Reincarnation
Anew reborn
Cross the water
Into unknown

Lost the battle
Sunk in despair
The Futility
Of hope

Immersed in sadness
Such is life
A long long winter
The crystals of time

Live in darkness
Die in light
Have I learned?
Will I escape?

Hibernation
Lost in sleep
Tried to remember
But could not stay awake

Sorrow
And the frozen soul
Ghost
Of a frigid self

In springs to come
Will I thaw out?


3. THE GOLDEN RATIO

In gossamer spun
In seedlings in spring
The ratio shines golden

In snails and in shells
In horn and in tusk
The ratio shines golden

Natures arithmetic
All transcendent
The rules cannot be disobeyed

Chaos and order
The all, the prime mover?
Anatomy, galaxies, music?

The human face
DNA spiral
Starfish and petals of flowers

Clockwise and counter
Future and past
Other wordly intelligence

Is there a grand architect?
Is this place real?
If nature is in perfect sequence
Then what is this murky veil?
Equation unsolvable

What is the meaning of life?
Have I been here before?
Where will I go when I die?
Will I ever know the truth?
The what, let alone the why?

The golden ratio
The Greek letter phi
Pantheistic Universal Mind
Microcosmic
All is a matter of scale
The wishing well
From another realm

Dimensions
Unseen to human eyes
Illusions play
And abound in space and time
The only truth
That can be observed
Is a spiral


4. LISTEN TO THE CROWS

Reeking dead carcass
Carrion! Beak tearing flesh
Scavenger with black wings
Weather changing, autumn dead leaves
Fall!

Grave
Tombstone memorial
Reverie
Reminiscing nostalgia, the past

Voice
Haggard, raspy, ominous
Prophecy
Omen, impending doom

Mortality
Seize the moment
For the time
Is running low

From the moment we are born
We die
With heads in the clouds
And a foot in the grave

Listen to the crows
As they rasp your name


5. LAPIS LAZULLI

Lapis lazuli
Blue pigment of the divine

Violet sea snail excretion
Whale vomit ambergris

A travesty of art
Jubilee of pointlessness

What is luxury?
What is the point?

A renaissance of deceit
Lies build atop lies

As one paints over
The masterpiece

Art devoid of commission
I say is true art
But who am I to say?

The heart yearns for beauty
The mind desires perfection
The stomach cares not for such notions

Who determines worth?
Who will patron the soul?


6. ON SEAS OF GRASS

On seas of grass
The battle will begin
On fields of red
Where many lives will end
On seas of grass
To die is to lose
On fields of red
To live is to win

Better to die by the sword
Than with no story to be sung
Better to go with sword in hand
Than be vanquished by imaginary fear

From the grey sky above
The raindrops start to fall
And blend with red
On the field

On seas of grass
With arrows in my chest!
On fields of red
Face to face with death!

Come on!

Better to rise and fall
Than to live amongst worms
Better to have actually lived
Than to merely have been

The gods don’t care anymore
In the heavens below
The souls lie silent
And still

The ravens scorn the brave
The hero is dead
The way is lost

Gone forever!
With the blades of grass


7. ECLIPSED

Does true meaning exist?
(Or is it purely assigned?)
Is perception synchronized?
(Do they sense the same world as I?)
Absurdity in micro
(Holographic reality)
Darkness permeates the universe
(A vacuum in macrocosm)

Eclipsed
Blinded by the sun
Eclipsed
Into the unknown

By birth
The channel was opened
An inheritance
Transient and arcane
The moon will not yield
To human phases

Forever ungrasped!

The moon will not yield
To human psyches

A boat adrift
(With no means of control)
Utterly void
(Nihilistic existence)

Eclipsed
Blinded by the sun
Eclipsed
Into the unknown

Lost in the illusion
Of meaning
Achievement is moot
Praise reserved for the grave

Of dual personas
One must be
One for the realm of the living
And one for thee


8. OBLIVION WINTERS

This is my song
This is my story
Ageless, timeless
From within and without

This is my remnant
This is my blood
It will outlive me
For I will be outdated

This road of sorrow
I hope
Not traversed in vain
This path of suffering
This mortal coil
Will be forgotten
Lost in the seasons

Oblivion Winters

Oh grand muse
Abandon me not
On this snowy starless night
Thaw my frozen heart

I'll be here
To greet your weeping shadows
With Warm hands
And frigid songs

The leaves
Of fall
Will wither
And decay
We live
We die
All in life
Is with a price
The joy
The pain
All in death
Will live again
In the winters
Of oblivion