Dreams of the Carrion Kind

Paralyzed as my life slips away I'm mortified by my disease Terrified of my mortality But doomed to find what lies beyond My conscience reawakens As I shed my mortal shell Drifting in the memories Of a once embodied life Lost beyond the carnal realm

Inflicted upon willing flesh Obsession's punishment Resculpted Into deranged abstraction Infernal equinox Marks the time of configuration The nameless one Vasa Inquitatis His labyrinthine machinations Of blessed order shall prevail The heart of damna

Born with inhuman abilities Necroscopic transfer From the afterlife Drawn to the fields of mortality Beckoned by the restless souls Nethworldly knowledge Seeps into the mind Deathless being, from beyond A sepulchral voice, incorporeal Unseen presence

Horrid life of cruelty strips the soul away Evil lies revealed, its presence undenied Crumbling morality infects the swarming race Flames of the unfettered, a fate beyond redemption Cleansing fire, all consuming Idyllic dream, lost in chaos Suffer Pr

Lurking in dormancy, unseen spore of hate Insidious infection, festering in dreams Rising from the hidden shadows of decay In solitude and suffering, an eon of malignant incubation Unborn of silent fears and self delusion The anatomy of sorrow Soulle

Ancestral home in the twilight deeps Beckons to me with unseen fingers Forefathers haunt Calling to me from this dark charnel house Corrupted through lifelong seclusion Driven by an unnatural force Drawn to this vault Declivity where the light reache

On the nightward shores of dream Beyond the waking plain Gates of horn and ivory Enter the nocturnal world Haunt of weary minds Revel in the fields of nightmare Dreams of the Carrion kind Monarch of the sleeping marches Creature of no end Son of Hypn

Life's tragedies, leaving mental scars Tortured by fear Viciousness breeding emptiness A sickness of the soul, emotions mummified A weakened state of being Which leaves the sences numb Victimized by despair And unrelenting depression The death of inn

Rituals contrived to ease the mind Mysteries revealed, or are they lies The ultimate truth remains unknown until you die Feeding the madness of uncertainty Fearful of revenge But sowing the violent seed A lifetime of transgressions Mentally tortured