Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Palm Trees on Fire

Bloodshot eyes see a world so blurred
The only thing in view but a bloody nest of a bird
What did I just say? That sounded so absurd

My eyes have yet to betray me
They take in so bloody and deathly a scene
But not even this can make me turn green

This strange world binds me in
Despair is our new god
And pain our new saviour
The ground births rusted thorns and burning horns

Kings and queens exercise dominion over all and none
Serfs reap in fields of sorrow and fire
Knights but pawns for the cold death awaiting

The stars
The planets
The entire universe
All an unending nothingness

A deep void of endless emptiness
A world where naught but ash and sulfur remain
A place for neither souls nor consciousness

Oh! The choir I direct shall exhale a great black silence!
Defecating ruin will bring our new god into existence
I, Death, the director of this wondrous chorus

All to sing will never cry
All to sing will never die
And all to sing a death-hymn under the blood sky!

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