Lux In Tenebris

Embrace me Thanatos that I might fall Seduce me Hypnos that I might lap the silver waters and forget But lo, at his heel bone I stood shackled and forced to witness My glass eyes were held open by another's will Had I the faculty to shatter my vision! And I behold a pale man, and the name by which he called himself was Father...Hell followed with him And he gave power unto himself over the expanse of nothingness before a crystal throne casting forth the hand emblazoned 'Solve' spewed all manners of tribulations whereas from the hand emblazoned 'Coagula' flowed ecclesiastical vexations Streams of spheres ablaze rent the formless firmament, for his vainful pleasure I dared loose my tongue against such lurid extravagances, and I would not serve I fell and I rose like a star, like a sun I slipped into a shade-less plane of nonexistence Bright arms radiating about my core, collapsing and yet bursting forth Depthless chasms of lucid dreams Stalactites of scabs are the clotted veins, like slowly curing wax Let flood waters of Acheron bury the flesh on Ararat As feathers fell away the vestments of ivory warped into obsidian As the halo of gold melted away, the hood removed revealed horns of ibex Cast aside to form Saturn's rings