Temple Of Void
The World That Was
1. A Beast Among Us
The Body
Placed on an open slab
Autopsy
Seeking the cause of death
Incisions
To find the clues inside
Necropsy
For it is not a man.
Unknown beast, like none have seen.
Brought to us by frightened men, whose silver shots had done it in.
For this creature hunted them. Tearing through bodies and then;
Feasting muscle. Draining blood. Until those men had enough.
A call to arms within the town to find the beast and bring it down.
Full moon hunter.
Wolven creature of hell.
Stalking horror.
Unearthly lycanthrope.
Cold eyes.
Coarse fur.
Gnashing fangs stripping bone.
A single silver bullet ends this nightmare.
2. Self-Schism
Lord of the irons, yet master of none.
White hot from the pyre, but the damage
is done.
The wax has melted; reveal the wick within
Begin total bisect. My fingers grip the skin.
Blood flows downward when the nails dig in.
Scalp detaches; bregmatic cranial split.
Self-Schism: The last chance of escape.
Devour the hours until darkness is left
The mind exposed so the illness can drain.
Hemispherical rupture; cerebral chasm remains.
Let division continue. Palates and ribs break.
Organ partition fall to feed the snakes.
Self-Schism: The last chance of escape.
Devour the hours until only darkness is left.
Only darkness is left.
Pace slips from my life.
Dread consumes.
3. A Single Obolus
4. Leave the Light Behind
From this shore your journey awaits,
A million souls sent from different fates.
A caravan but for a fee,
Or be banished to roam for centuries.
One coin of silver within my grasp,
to lead you through this treacherous path.
The rivers of death we’ll cross with grace,
deliverance to the final resting place.
Your face is different, but we’ve met before.
In the end it’s all the same.
I’ve made this voyage so many times,
I can leave the light behind.
A torch through the fog can light the way,
revealing the specters who could not pay.
Phantasmally drifting throughout time,
with mournful screams that haunt my mind.
The crack of the oar pushes the wake,
parting the black, revealing below
monstrosities of the river deep,
and sinners who drowned in their watery keep.
Chorus
Do you dare to look over the edge?
I’ve looked and accept what I am,
for death has been good to me.
You may find your reflection looks right at home.
5. Casket of Shame
Where is my disconnect?
Where is my sanity?
It’s been crushed to death under humanity.
Illusion of joy,
just to placate this meandering existence.
Oh what a fool I am, scattering myself like this.
Clawing at the ground; dredging the abyss.
Decades of lessons lost,
imperatives left to neglect.
Rotten through.
Too little and much too late.
This casket of shame
Lowered into a plot with no name
The solitude I crave,
Will only come from the grave.
Pitch-black free-fall from an unknown depth.
We all stay slumbering until we hit the floor
As for me, I’ll sleep when I’m dead.
Chorus
Lost time is never recovered,
when gambled and squandered away.
Seconds die, as do we.
Choose your path ever-wisely.
Chorus
6. The World That Was
The sun, it burns my tired eyes
and shakes my core,
as I ascend from a home
that exists no more.
No Pain - No Fear - No War - No Life.
My sword, battle-torn, lie lifeless as I.
Have the gods had enough?
Was all this for naught?
Now gone are the moons of yesterday,
and the hopes of tomorrow’s sons.
Will this nightmare finally end?
Or has it just begun?
What does the future hold?
Or will the future die with us as one?
Our bodies pulled towards the vortex,
as the light swallows us whole.
Centuries of endless war,
Destroyed in an incinerating flash.
For in the end the void takes it all away;
leaving behind but a memory of a
world that was.
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