A cord pulsing through, a labyrinth of regret Mounds of web and dust, depleting wells of trust Aghast in seclusion memories remain Images damn and curse and mock A familiar fiend pulls the cord, palms sweating Veins pulsing drenched in blood and froth My mind flares, memories tear How do you fight against gravity? A constant pull to the void below, soul lost to frailty My voice punctures like nails through oak Repeating scripts with the most harrowing of notes Over encumbered with this guilt Self-hatred, sabotage to the hilt Condemned, this cord binds me, shackled to see innocence die once more Futile, torment chasing, fleeing from this reflection I abhor Derelict, body a ruin, denizens of contempt, they adore Hell bent, fight to avoid, overruled, admire the horror In this pollution I was baptized, born with this cord around my neck Cold hands tore at me, comfort of vultures seeking a peck One mute, the other humming a dirge marching me through their hold Mounds of filth, dew of cadaverine, carnage creeps through the shadows folds Past silk blinds, this creature slept Crimson cursed rivers as she wept Dreams to elope, her mind oft lept New fruit to nourish except As feet stepped and mind set Hounds unleashed as did beasts As my heart, my heels did beat Feel the pull, all hope ceased Grasping at rock, earth and stone Claws towing, fuck that moan I recall all this before, rendered in gore These halls call once more Repetitious, years go by Constant desire to flee I try Snared again, the past begins Broken limbs with defeating hymns You'll amount to nothing, a tattered doll made flesh What lies inside in cancer behind your breast No use to fight, you must damn the light When your breath ends, nirvana begins Your accursed touch it brings the night Powerless you'll fall, a leech so contrite Wishing you can outrun? A pitiful sight When your breath ends nirvana begins Awareness sets in it speaks no truth, it just feeds on agony, The past it grips me, restrained by a leash, but head on you may defeat this grief Avoidance increases the beasts might Alter, correct and fight Catch it, redefine it and control this life Igniting tinder, ghouls adorned in flames House in immolation knowing that I'll forever remain Standing tall amongst the ashes I define If I'm to stay, rebuild, and I'll make it mine

Unabashed with sun in their eyes, their work continues to damn the sky A callused demanding heart Moon casts a fortuitous tide, mans reflection adulterous pride The men who curse the sun Under dysthymic skies Violent hands and dichotomous thoughts To feel beyond, a life that's lost A plague stricken curse Egocentric hostile force, conquer all without remorse Sociopathic wealth a fevered source Insatiable lust, cyclical violent course This ornate contemptuous history relegated by individualistic man Testosterone driven hateful ministry Mocking life's need for the sun, refuting the seas dependence to the moon Idols of himself raised where community once hung These once whispered morals, now carved in stone Scars of the earth echo in our bones This noxious oath predicated by father's verse Disempowering women part of men's true birth Clouds swarm the sky, pollution grips the sun Modeled disordered sight, plagued the sun shall become Clad in shadows lay misogynistic thoughts Collective of men preserving the hell they have wrought Beating others as they have beaten their own chest Infusing apprentices with the vitriol they invest All shall succumb The hand the feeds are those of greed Torturous tactics to guide the seed Demanding respect as heel breaks the bone Now thread, future noose now getting sewn Externalize all guilt, be devoid of shame Power is in closed fist, the sun sees the rain For end result compassion can be feigned Six feet down is where true emotion is lain The narcissistic father in a familiar scene The ocean's water relieves him of guilt and crimson Toxic aggression and barbaric resolve Machinations to maintain this corrupted prison This pattern of behavior, as dependable as the tide Hereditary, a blight on both sides Masculinity, your fragile hide Rationalize abuse as demons confide Praise to the wretched, feeble heart of stone Idol turned to dust, corrosive dogma overthrown Hollowed man's choking hand struggling all self-reflection Primal forcing the sacrifice down, a baptism, let him drown Hair getting pulled, neck snapping back Blood adorns your lavish altar, folly of man Riches, reflection, women, All others under foot Cult of man stands at water's crest Far beyond lay the corpses of the opposition Organs of sacrifice to bless and ingest Ocean to drown the sun, ritualistic transfixion To plummet to earth, to feed the sea To preserve this power, to maintain, the deed is done With your empty riches, ever weak, may you ever prosper Men who curse the sun You'll never see the sun Men who curse the sun You'll never drown the sun

Heaving earth, silt, and stone Monolith my shadow grows Unbridled thirst and gasping breath With mauled remains to feed the crows The faintest inhale with buckling knees Sand manifests in decompensating lungs Powerless I lay before, again it has begun Born alone, stand alone, a pattern I so wish to refuse Needs ignored, negligence born, reflect and recall this abuse Wounds exposed, curses in prose, a craving for love to diffuse Eyes set, the muse met, incendiary bowed with satin fuse Those who once brought me life now apterous corrupted flight Dejected, tragic pose, demented Broken promises ensnare, vigilance aware, ulcerating fallowed heart Nomadic I have roamed, heart set to trust and confide steeped in the wells of invalidation Feels as though countless times, a lovers kiss and tantric drive Years spent waiting, abating, learned helplessness I must abide To find myself in the arms of another unmitigated my heart as guide Juvenile folly directed course Inflicting venom hearts paralysis, a lurking shadow set to divide Lying helpless in defeat when the monolith arrives Viscera adorned, blight reborn, cursed treachery of the heart Desert heat, defect discrete, a pained victor in defeat Demanding why, returning sighs, Bathory bathed in reverence Repeating, lack of meaning, crying into my bloodied hands Forever searching to appease the tide Bloodied betrayal, a god that lied Forever feeding this condemnation, genuine connection, a trap for corruption Adoration spoken through barred gritted teeth Pitiful, harmful, embrace your lover's heart Ravaged, bankrupt, parasitic attachment Misery, hemorrhaging, devils sing This unquenchable thirst for purpose desecrates all cast in it's wake An empty hallowed vessel only seeking to satiate Shadows speak as cursed hearts beat Realization comes as the monolith prepares to indoctrinate

Southern trees bare a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees Pastoral scene of the gallant south The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh Then the sudden smell of burning flesh Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop Here is a strange and bitter crop