Deposed by the one you feigned to love
Now the rebel takes his leave of your tyranny
Lost in the ashes of your broken reign
A tattered banner waves your name
As if to say
I was never to blame!

You were always to blame

And in the silence of betrayal
Makeshift stitches unravel
As disdain bleeds into the echoes of our past

As I climb out from the rubble
I don't hear you speak
Yet still it lingers
Your haunting melody

Through the wreckage of shattered dreams
Unburdened by what remains
Phantom chains bind
A ghostly embrace
In the absence of love
I find my fate

When the world collapsed
I found myself
Reborn
Reborn into ruin

Still I sift through the ashes
Of an unfinished empire
Beneath this blameless banner
Alone and blood-soaked with disdain
A frail hunger somehow
Still craves your sore refrain

Reborn into ruin
Just let me rot

Ripped from the Void

Reign of Descent

Ripped from the void

Ripped from the void
Into the chaos of existence
With the burden of consciousness bestowed
Upon a body so frail

My spirit longs to return
From calvary to the affectionate arms
Of that infinite darkness

Yet in time's grasp
Moments unfold
Eternity breathes
To reveal the static circle
All suffering souls endure

Ripped from the void
With no promise of contentment
No declaration of freedom from distress
The only certainty is the final return

And in that blackness
Stretching beyond the bounds of reality
I will find peace everlasting
In the folded veil of temporality

Yet in a desert scorched by misery
Seeping slowly into sand
And dried by time's cruel hand
Joy comes like rain
Teaching tree leaves to whisper
Joy comes like rain
As a tempest screams

When eternity
Exists in a single moment
Joy and suffering
Intertwine like mother and child

Ripped from the void
Only to return again

At long last
Comes the gentle release
From time's callous hand

At long last
This body, frail
From the weight of consciousness
And many years, now faint, of moments unfolded
Sheds it's homesick spirit
Bound for the calm embrace
Of that unclouded nothingness

Ripped from the Void

Strain

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