Falls Of Rauros
Key to a Vanishing Future
1. Clarity
Clinging to illusive notions
Counting listless years you’ve lived through
Attending your shame
Fiction deceiving struggle
Eyes condemn scrutiny
Performance should dictate your life
False community sustains you
Frail belief in superstition sustains you
Apothegm, in lieu of question, sustains you
Cult apocrypha, heavy as mist, sustains you
Wavering creed sealed in the coffin of a nation
A spent imitation
God's accomplice is reaction
Imagined purpose feeds the aesthete
A silent god's accomplice is reaction
A last imagined purpose feeds the aesthete
Foul sophistry
No measure, no model, torn fabric of thought
Shields the bare aberrant pith of demonstration
Artistry and disregard as a form of refinement
Nothing but forged simulacra of awareness
Held in reverence
God's accomplice is reaction
Imagined purpose feeds the aesthete
A silent god's accomplice is reaction
A last imagined purpose feeds the aesthete
Foul sophistry
2. Desert of Heart
Savor the relief of sentence
A careful appraisal of missteps toward fulfillment
Hardship bears fragile gifts, penitence vindication
Alibi for the failing of resolve
Vain currency
Stranger to empathy
Derelict to society
Mendicant
Ruined
Yearning for forgiveness
Hopeless in the cold
Desert stretching ghastly
Circumscribing every wish to seek conference
Hollowing new channels as a metaphor
Buried last endeavor
Under reticence and the strain of detachment
Nursing frozen limbs as symbolism
Stranger to empathy
Derelict to society
Mendicant
Ruined
Yearning for forgiveness
Hopeless in the cold
Disinherit what strength has been conjured
And let emptiness bloom as a surrogate
Stranger to empathy
Derelict to society
Mendicant
Ruined
Yearning for forgiveness
Hopeless in the cold
Rushing violently
Precipitant to the answering
Only a desert of heart starves forgiveness
A desert of heart
3. Survival Poem
Held without expression
Multitudes lie fixed
To the temperament of state
Misrule shall be a weapon
Transgression of the heart
Lust for no allegiance
Casting down tradition
And the manacles of kin
Misrule shall be a weapon
Transgression of the body
Misrule shall be a weapon
Transgression of the mind
Instruments of an unyielding form
Circling in attitudes of coercion
Robed in coward's vestiture
Engine of a wanton regime
Instruments of an unyielding form
Circling in attitudes of coercion
Robed in coward's vestiture
Engine of a wanton regime
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Patience cannot be afforded
Patience is death
Strike while they're vulnerable, inconsonant
Preoccupied with the frailty of excuse
We'd die rather than witness
Enemies burying our loved ones
Our loved ones, our loved ones
4. Known World Narrows
Waking in the dark
Native hesitation
Sword pierces armor
Anemic culture of mist
Flung to the ether
Ages perceived as unblessing
Scholars will grow blind
In the blossoming of insight
Reckoned losses mounting
Treasured forms relinquish construct
Scouring what archaic prose remains
In volumes acclaimed
Persist while the known world narrows
Find courage, hold fast while the known world narrows
Volunteer every ardent conclusion
To be left dead to history
Judgement's noose has been raised
Turn away from the hex of illusion
Scorching the atlas of the cursed
Mocking their birthright
Persist while the known world narrows
Find courage, hold fast while the known world narrows
Heritage abandoned at the gallows
Persist while the known world narrows
Lantern throwing its light upon the future
Find courage, hold fast while the known world narrows
Waking in the dark
Native hesitation
Sword pierces armor
Anemic culture of mist
Flung to the ether
Grotesque pledge of convention
Paints hideous dreams of object tomorrow
Nauseous by the flash of illustration
The world disappears
5. Daggers in Floodlight
Solicit no enigma
Offer canon meretricious
A forked-tongue lexicon
Consternation yields profit untarnished
A populace clawing out the eyes of their sisters
Sell pretext to the nation's forgotten
Unreluctant to veil daggers behind relief, delusion of task
Circumvention of imperative contract
Tragic are the injuries we withstand
Heads down in anguish oppressive
May violent incitation appoint us
Carry the torch, reclaim tomorrow
Blanket of ashes masks the sun
Every path eclipsed
Every bolt locked
Every advantage hanged
The reflection withheld
The nostalgia we're robbed of
The enduring walls of restraint have dissolved
May a desperate age grant us new life
Fan the embers
Feed the spirit
Exile every hope of success
6. Poverty Hymn
Shackled to misdirection
Fingers contort, bent from despair
Fallen victim to a calm, inauthentic and uneager
Never again acquiescing
Our blades invoke the sun
Seeking heart or a bare throat to inaugurate
Weapons born to caution the night
Desperately hunt in the shadows of their pledge
Shelter is myth
Our blades invoke the sun
Seeking heart or a bare throat to inaugurate
Weapons born to caution the night
Desperately hunt in the shadows of their plеdge
Shelter is myth
Keening voicе
Singing hymns to the poverty of existence
Cruelty is a gift from our masters
Standing naked in the floodlights of transition
Trying to stay warm
Keening voice
Singing hymns to the poverty of existence
Cruelty is a gift from our masters
Standing naked in the floodlights of transition
Trying to stay warm
A wound that cannot be reconciled
Will swallow us
Never take for granted what you have
Crippled justice will be sacrificed as a lesson
All compassion will be martyred
Every flowering lost to time
And a wound that cannot be reconciled
Will swallow us
Never take for granted what you have
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