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Set out at dayspring, homeland behind

Journey of sacrifice

Organic ritual, inexorable drive

Embark upon the hunt

And the quiet stretches under the high sun

Forested vista, arborous sanctum

Travel onward to seclusion

Under cover of shadow lay the portal to the night

Slip into the umbrage and be still

All is no longer as it were, a face so fair

By scattered moonlight framed by strands of fire

Wings unfurl to suffocate, embrace to crush the mind

Fervent maw envelops, condemned

Howls of fiendish laughter resound off the stones

Head of thunder rearing to blacken the firmament

Horns, twisted, eyes of flame, ancient, looming deceit

Lured by the dream, bound to it's world, doomed to burn

Voices on the wind, tortured screams drawing in

Impulse to obey, oath of release

Fatal human form, fated to ruin

Weakened senses destined for the grave

The shadows descend

Dragged through gardens of ash, swirling, noxious mass

Thrown at the feet of the lord of betrayal

The baler grins with glee, dominance complete

"There is no escape. Maggot, scum, you belong to me"

Wallow, for days without end

In the destruction of the self

Feeding the daemons of consequence

Their eager faces await the fall

Sentenced to languish in the filth and decay

And long for a death that will never come