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To Forget...
08:37
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A life not lead lies obscured
Beyond broken branches
Amidst the shallow, desperate forest floor
What secrets have you buried?
What trodden earth has been lost to the relentlessness of time
If we only had more time
Hope of a better future drawn away
As dew from a tender spring leaf
We walk on
Forget me.
Open not your weary eyes to gaze upon
A visage that once brought you joy
Sleep while wide awake
Deep scars left behind
The knife of time draws deep
Memories that haunt you
Unwanted imprints on a pure blanket of snow
Cast aside these fleeting delusions
Of a past long dead
And a future buried beneath my mistakes
Purity misbegotten
From a yearning mind
Unfulfilled, displaced desire
There is no escape from this endless torrent of misery
Which is rightfully mine to bear
Forget me.
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The Grotto
05:23
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I hear the call; the spectral voice of the sea
I heed the call; traverse the low-tide path
To the grotto’s mouth; beyond the water’s edge
To the barrier; between this world and the next
Step by step, these weary pilgrim’s feet
Draw ever closer to the precipice of my defeat
Flee man’s reality
To seek refuge
In the embrace of earth
The bramble draws me in
Chasing remnants of distant, weary light
Sharp, dead horizon; the wisp’s luminescence
Take now this offering, left upon the soil
Take now my weary bones, I slowly drift away
Drift away….
Upturned roots now shift
Into chaotic forms
Branches strangling
Merciless as the depths
From which we emerge
And now shall return
Malignant blackened waves
Carry me onwards.
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Weightless
07:56
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Consciousness collapses in ruins
And the veil slips away
A shuddering heart, a pause in the breath
Grey mists suffocate the day
We have fortunes in doubt and disharmony
And the remnants of hope smashed on rock
Exposed and shivering in the pale blinding light
Forever crawling, crowned in failures, our virtues forgot
What solace could we have from this suffering?
What could cure this aching malaise?
Or visions have no future, our end already begun
Walking as ghosts counting down the days
The answer rides the crashing foam, calls in the soaring waves
Where the sky meets the sea
A beckoning expanse before me
I enter its embrace, weightless in body and mind
And become one with its infinite depths,
Devoid of misery, of doubt, of time.
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Tainted Soil
06:57
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Lament not
For their souls
They are lost to reason, lost to love, lost to hate
Bestial lust
Overcomes
Willingness to live a life of meaning, a life of worth
Pitiful
Roaches clamor
Spewing foul decay
Wallow in emptiness
Wallow in shame
To the ground, to the grave
Degenerate disease
Never to find solace
Never to find peace
To the ground
Worthless
Cleanse the soil of pestilence, filth and disease
Tread not on this tainted earth where vermin feed
This world of hateful, lustful urge and deceit
This is not our calling and only leads to defeat
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Liminal Shroud Victoria, British Columbia
Surging black metal from the west coast of Canada (Victoria, B.C.). Formed in 2017.
All Virtues Ablaze released August 5, 2022 via Willowtip Records.
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