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(Music and Lyrics by Gareth Sansom)

Mediocrity's face, no greater the torment

Spared potent duresses and obvious malady

From childhood's lament, through youth's awkward epiphanies

Time ushered apartheid, wisdom bought clarity

For years, nigh on decades, that threshold advanced

Persecuted by virtues reserved for the blessed

As this rage welled within me though, visions grew clearer

Manifesting a project for him that reflected the mirror

The weight of the world and this vile exterior

Forgiven no trespass, resigned and inferior

'Always and never', mine mantra rehearsed

But no longer and never again will this face follow curse

In dream I wander restlessly

A landscape painted fantasy

As paragon and victory

In wildernesses draped eternal dusk

Amiss, that instant whence I lapsed from daydream

And chanced to test the waters of temptation

However, now forever changed, I stagger

Onward towards forbidden pleasures nearer

Designed a tale in detail crafted horror

From whence I might forever sate this hunger

To take and break the will as bread communion

And bind this sacrament in sexual union

Onward, through the endless grey

Trespassing, thus, forbidden ley

Desire's fire, and carnal swey

In wildernesses draped eternal dusk

Simplicity's intricacies, beyond my reach; reality

Conformity, complacency, base urge will out, eventually..

Sadistically, methodically, in finest sculpted fantasy

The chamber awaits and hour draws late, lest will abate..

.. a swansong on the 'morn