Altar

I confess With tongue of flame Transgressions of the soul and of the mind Cremation of the spirit Phantasms in the smoke Peace through perversion of the divine This agony of choice I’m wrought now with grief As regret runs in my veins Inebriating all that once was sober Inebriate and destroy I am impure My heart is defiled Your blade has pierced the flesh now As my life bleeds on the canvas Scrawl a message for the lost Like Christ bearing the cross Obliterate my body and spirit Eviscerated by the highest of powers Defiler Betrayer Oh darkness, relinquish me Slain here I lay Upon this tabernacle An ignorant pawn Birthing a darkness I cannot fathom Ethereal demon swelling from my chest, Rise and consume me O surreptitious one To enforce thy will, lend me The power of a god Won’t you paint my flesh with darkness? Mold me in the image of the void? Suffocated in the light of martyrs Sacrificed on Baphomet’s altar Defiler Betrayer Oh darkness, relinquish me