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Waking in a sea of flesh and gore

Cycled through this horror again

Obscured memories linger in my mind

Somehow I know I’ve suffered this before

Her eyes gaze upon me, uneasy and afraid

Was I a monster or something best forgotten

I’d wage a war and kill for her

But why do I feel this way?

The worlds birth us all

We birth all the worlds

Cogs and gears; sinew, bone and flesh

Recycled and abused in unending trial

Failure deemed I am tossed to the maw

I watch her eyes swallowed by the dark

Left to wallow in cadaverous waves

Where towering shadows chew on the dead

From the bowels of a star-like womb

I climb through the meat and bone

I’ve lead myself this way before

The shadow of myself calls

The world unfurls around me, layers and layers

I peel back the skin and swim in the veins

The deeper I dive, it reveals itself

Revealing myself inside—revealing myself

The worlds birth us all

We birth all the worlds

Cogs and gears; sinew, bone and flesh

Recycled and abused in unending trial

My memories are filtered through these great organs

The world howls

I understand the pain

I ascend breaking through bone

Tasting the blood as it showers my face

Gnawing on the muscle, I climb

I remember what I am

Betrayed and killed a thousand times

Her eyes still enrapture me

But at the bridge of our worlds

We can only be two lords among the stars