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Fire and ashes covering everything

That was seen by my eyes once

Song of fire flies far

In an endless frost

The picture of a memory

Holds back ages and forgetting

But it guards the ancient empire

Heights as a gate

And defends of entering

The black gate

Where those may enter

Who belong there

A gate that defends

Of all life

A gate of darkness and death

A place to rest

A gate that defends

Of all light

That may burn us.

A darkness infinite

A pain infinite

Eternity

That doesn't let us die

A real world

Lived by not many

Black gate

Thou art locked before me

I am screaming in the night

With the dark purity of my soul

And my immortal words

The call of another word

Opens up

The memory of another age

Calls again...And the black gate locks

Behind me...To return to

A forgotten age and place...