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where light is lost

infinite emptiness

only pillars of grief

billows of smoke

wisp over these barren lands

merciless coldness

consumes all effort of life

dead ember remains

from this worthless quest

for redemption

a burnt offering

becoming one with the soil

like innumerable souls before

betrayed by what

they've been told to be the cure

in this realm

of omnipresent bitterness

a sin to end all sins

an aberration of the centuries

from the temple to the grave

a perennial elegy

a sin to end all sins

from the temple to the grave

a construct doomed to fail

constantly devouring itself

from the fragments

of this man made hell

nothing will rise

what is dead - remains dead

only blackness ahead