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As the night draws close

And curious stars light the dark

Revealing affliction and a hidden path

Amidst deep entrails

Woven from the frailty of our blood

Thus awoke the cult of the fiery horn

A prayer for lawless eyes

Fumes of bereft light atoned

Ascend towards the moon, as it whispers

Travel into the darker realms of crimson haze

And in these moments of ingress,

Of undressing the unknown,

I promise a light second to none

In an oath never cleft in twain

As the measure of an unfurled weight was carved

And the final straw dislodged

Only once but everlastingly

Were these roots entwined

When the immortal night echoed

The ebb and flow of the chanting waves

Of a river in spate

Soaring in a majestic cavalcade

As a silver thread riveted these scars to my veins