1. THE MONOLITH

Truth, it bleeds from words of madness
Beyond what we perceive.
Is this grey world that we see
More real than the dreams we seek?

How I long to be real
To know the endless truth that mountains know
Must I end to feel such timeless peace?
For there is none in the grey
Only masks, only words without meaning

Truth, it bleeds from words of madness
Beyond what we perceive.
Is this grey world that we see
More real than the dreams we seek?

They showed me their truth
A concrete monolith that cast no shadow
But slowly I see the intangible is uncorrupted
I’ll leave this place

To walk in worlds that never were
To mourn what never was
For only this is real

Truth, it bleeds from words of madness
Beyond what we perceive.
Is this grey world that we see
More real than the dreams we seek?

Behold with sleepless eyes
Beyond the grey
An echo rings
A whispered dream
The truth beyond the real is everything


2. EULOGY FOR THE LOST

In this desolate cold world, I am forsaken

I stand alone in the depths of despair
A hidden portrait
A ceaseless wonder of time
Forbidden realm of dreams
Will I ever become one with such place?
Starlit skies smile upon me
Seeping matter pulsates

Beneath dark soil
I awaken
A sacred rite
From which I rise

As the suns rays die
And my wings no longer fly
Desperate I flail in the nothingness
Held down, anxious, with no breath
Consciousness fades away
All light disappearing as day shall never break

The opportunity has come and gone
Feelings of bliss see no dawn
Forthcoming displeasures so great
Here, I meet my fate

Beneath dark soil
I awaken
A sacred rite
From which I rise
The turning season
To return
The dark is waiting
I. Shall. Perish.


3. THE APOCALYPTIC THEATER

The curtain falls
Desolation and decay enthralls
Upon this horrendous scene
Somehow, a strange beauty gleams
The forceful descent slowly dawns
No caress to fall upon

This hidden portrait
A ceaseless wonder of time
We reach out and what do we find?
Not a whisper in the wind
A slither in the cracks,
Not a soul on this plain
Tears of the Earth begin to rain
The tears of the earth

Desolation enthralls
Upon this horrendous scene

Failure, to fulfil our dreams
Sorrow, our hopes recede
Hatred, seemed our only path
Shadows, will ever last

Newborn rivers begin to flow
An elusive story never to be told
Into oblivion we fade
For the monumental mistakes we made

Now, the curtains, they rise
Forevermore, we watch with lifeless eyes


4. TALAS

Sight returns
Before cruel thought
There’s such grief in waking
I long to drift unknowing here
But memory soon
Breaks me anew

Again that dreadful whisper
It moves across the drowning tide
I hide in broken towers
But still it knows all that I’ve done
Will I become this darkness?
Will I forget all that I was?

Only you
There’s only you

Now the ghosts drifting forward
In the dark of the void
But I do not stand alone
As I ever have before
And I hear the words resound
In your voice, “take my hand”
No, I do not stand alone
As I ever have before

And I hear the words resound
In your voice, “take my hand”
No, I do not stand alone
as I ever have before
Here we stand at the heart
Of this hopeless world of chaos
No we do not stand alone
As we ever have before


5. FATAL FRAME

The lingering scent of a dying dream
Fulfilment of damnation from aeons past
The promise once broken to be kept encaged in a prison of lies

Unjustly until we meet our demise

This crimson scar will never bloom
A bloodstained tear takes the plunge from your face
Madness seeps from your mind as you slash through this realm
Despair, hatred and sadness corrode your reason

The mourning dawn shall remain out of sight
The pain refuses to subside
All those years lonely because I failed you
Never again!

The caress of the dark and the daggers that wound
Faithful to none but the endless void beneath
Piece by piece, our souls break down into shards of glass
Do not forget me and as the roots take hold, don’t let go!

It constricts and chokes the life from our bodies
The malice lurking in every crevice

Cracking the foundation of this plane
To continue as a hollow shell
Begging to be broken and released from this torment
Yet, the time is upon us
To fulfil our destiny

I feel your veins pulsate as I clench
And as the whimper of your fading life escapes your lips
The horror evokes an anguished bellow from the depths of my soul
Forgive me...

The rays begin to shine through the ebony clouds
Bittersweet, as it warms my pain
I begin to howl
I reach out to your translucent silhouette and you flutter away.
We exist within the very fabric of reality only as one...


6. THE DELUGE

It pours over me
This unwritten tome of despair

From the depths of nothingness,
I see you in the distance
I feel your presence in every fibre of my being

These dreams came to nothing
They scatter on the wind
With the shadows of our ghosts
These fears are all you left me
To drown what I have lost
So let these waters rise

Droplets of rain circle around me
My footsteps resounding in my head
The lightning cracks and illuminates all
It beckons me to follow

To reach the source of that which cannot be uttered yet impossible to remain silent on

Inundated, I stand
Broken, I struggle
Dead, I wither
My body, crumbles into dust

These dreams came to nothing
They scatter on the wind
With the shadows of our ghosts
These fears are all you left me
To drown what I have lost
So let these waters rise

Battle the current and swim against the stream
One last struggle to convince the tide that we’re worthy
One final look at your face will suffice
End this senseless tirade of doubt and fear
Permit closure and if everything is to be, then let it rain down on us!

For it will take over one way or another
It’s up to us how we bid each other farewell
Let it drench this annihilated land
Let it reclaim its rightful place
Let it consume all that we are!

The ink begins to dry out
The chronicle concludes
Nothing more left to say
I vanish from existence...


7. ATONEMENT

Glaring at the horizon
Blood boils
An insurmountable rage and the memory of you is too much to withstand

The indoctrination behind your words
Permitting the fall of us all
You are not of this world
I banish you henceforth

You shall not walk amongst us
Not a flicker of hope for you
I condemn who you are
Who you’ve always been
The steel mask no longer shielding you
Free-falling from heights so great
Your place in the clouds won’t hold you for long
The time has come to set your feet on the ground
Or you will disintegrate

You raise on a throne others made
And you think that your prize will not choke you
Savour your short lived reign
For the ones you’ve tried to break will rise against you
Soon and certain the day of your fall
When you’ll know that my winged curse has found you

You will burn!

The indoctrination behind your words
Permitting the fall of us all
You are not of this world
I banish you henceforth

For all you believed you were
For all the pain and hurt
For all that which you caused
You will eventually fall
Compassion has come up short

You’re banished!


8. THE EVENT HORIZON

I scream at the skies
Wondering how it all came to pass

I reach out to you
Dark matter between us
You remain unattainable

I claw my way through the pits of desolation
Only to fail

I fall
I crawl
I sob
I break

Can you recall these fleeting moments?

A hollow temple where death comes in strides

I puncture these remnants of ache and horror
Only for them to burst onto me

I have ruined all that we were
I now stand beside myself
Hellish abyss
A path with no escape
Feasting on my sanity
I fall
I crawl
I sob
I break

I mourn the memories of your light
The sight of an uncertain future
It taints what we once were
Dying in the midst of ephemeral bliss

Awaiting an eternal scorn
Shades of black begin to take form
A waning breath that can only mutter one final thought...
Why?