Pain in dormant stage - sleeping yet awake
An end to all that is not - a future unknown
Silence - deafening howls pierce the wind
Chained inside with the demons of my soul
Acid tears eroding my shallow grave
where nothing grows - null and void - a solace entombed
Leave behind rotten world - find joy in death
Reap now the fruits of damnation
I exist only to knock the spikes in further
I exist only to grind the thorns in deeper
Dreamless dreaming
Lifeless living
Deathless dying
Endless ending
Mass grave digging
Mass grave filling
Total scorching of this Earth
Fuck your life
Fuck your health
Fuck yourself
Reel in past joys once more again
Know now they've ceased as though never there
Weary is the mind in this state
of null ambition and wasted dreams
Parting with the thoughts of yesterday
as the serene in on itself concaves
And light doth fade to grotesque disarray absolute
Watching the days creep in stagnant form
Slow as life, pure as death
A path leading far from here
where no life lingers on
Losing sight, finding mind
Losing touch with mankind
Life arraigned, to death resign
The fire inside burns on kindled by Hell
Sate my wrath with your million burning tears
Falling into death's ethervoids
Leaving behind the limits of flesh
Breaking the chains, fuck the remains
Consuming my soul the flames
No light can penetrate this void
A null congregation of ghosts
Time drifts away in disappearing shades
I walk the path into the obscure
Ages pass me by doleful and pale
Shattering my faith into something frail
Walk this dreaded path - bound to existence
With one foot in the grave digging deeper everyday
Let the world burn
Lies replaced with truth
I don't care anymore
Cosmic emptiness - surrender to your will
Walk the path of death - infinite nothingness
Return to whence you came - the darkest inner light
Burning brighter than all the stars combined
Detach your heart and soul
Defecting your ego
It doesn't even matter anymore
Forging the way through the limits of pain of a world left behind that's forgotten by time - desertion of hope in the void you will find
Lawless and boundless to flesh we're unchained from the order of life, the beginning of time - to the end of the end and all things in between
Darkness pierce my flesh
A portal to nothingness
Chaos entwine my soul
Absolution in death is the final goal
See all the lively roots rotting
and backwards the rivers flow
Part with the notions you cherish
With blood will the pillars of mankind begin to erode
Spitting on every gravestone
Etched in stone my demise
Etched in stone my demise
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