Rex Irae [Requiem]

You have joined your father's feast Those who saw essence or fall Floods of dramatic silence And words, from whom we don't know Let me dream Flee from false I have tasted the weight of lust My hands on the skein of height A pallid death Mirage into dark The horizons echo your glance Following a detractive sleep I am the wrath beneath the heavens The downfall's monologue Fallen into the vision of effect Quiet as gods can be (Joining the king's words) Orgies of fear Inbreeding and death I have walked Carthaginian's sands I've touched those buried walls I am the All mortal is love? Remembrance has won Breathing glorified innocence Quiescence has died therefore I am the We stood before the portals of Babylon And saw it's petrified fall Have seen your decline's symbols But carried another life We tasted the wine of Persepolis, As mute as our era's breath Death was never a fragment of Exalting fantasy Remembrance ii, this last region last of fire Orgasmic cries tears and words Wrath and strength oh, gods! for you! Before the throne, death Fright and praise A faded light Intimate rests my book Unwritten what seems true I am the art of might! You remaining king Take your predecessor's hand You son of my jade gift I am the