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Of Vacant Planes

by Astringency

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1.
Shat out the coldest of incubators Angelic child The soulless gaze of a true believer Warps Mommy’s smile Wrapped in swaddling clothes Lying in first and only crib Heavenly touch displayed Through butchering hands and wicked lips Carved postpartum This undeserved babe What difference do few thousand years make Read in ancient scripture or today’s front page The absent Father’s present in obedient brains ‘tis not a murder of an innocent Just a gift returned Limbs first An empty sky stays unresponsive to her final screams Spurting blood curdling See what evil Mother brings Word come alive guiding Jephthah’s possession Virus bartered for serrated weapon Infant severed in Solomic inversion Come thou fount speak maternal deception Care eschewed for her holy mission Mental affliction Versed in fiction A heinous crime But all is fine In the poisoned mind Of her failed protector An empty sky stays unresponsive to her final screams Spurting blood curdling See what evil Mother brings Daughter’s bloodlet showers Stain her gown with scarlet angel wings Lost, now found; washed in the blood Blank face psychotic, serene This terminal betrayal Resounding in her wail Unthinkable the scene Of an infant cleaved With Isaac the test did begin Pray that with little Maggie it ends [Jake solo] Makeshift altar’s offering drains Cradle runneth over mid songs of praise Singing killer gently sways Life itself: a godless waste Zeal conveyed Her form unmade Tiny arm pierced with blade A mother’s touch
2.
Sojourner 05:46
Human faces seemingly melt into one Common mass of tiresome redundancy Assumed shallow uniqueness aside This weary traveler stares down quotidian eyes Nary a soul surprises this ol’ Trudging curmudgeon sans permanent home Many a den probed and slipped in To enter one is to taste of all men Jointly reviled though distant by miles These bipedal rats still elicit a smile Don the misanthropic lorgnette Staining rose-colored humanistic sight At the time of this writing Who knows where I will be? The hell of other people spurs My inveterate wandering If alienation is a phase Here’s one to last me to the grave I cast off their surface repose Mine lies inside wherever I may roam To shed all trace of purgatorial comfort Must perplex the breed indeed Swift dip; ousted; always on merry way Ventured into desirable wilds Coppice of old, the millpond so cold Case for traversing perennial road Its natural song quelling the throng Keeps your humble author moving along Just a black-clad vagabond Taking a stroll in the dark dead of night On a pilgrimage of sorts for yours truly Not of this race or world [Aaron solo]
3.
Will these liquids flow Above and below Libations grow Outpouring the rest Welcome to our home One humble abode For which Heaven rose We few fortunate blessed On this chosen night A sacred rite Free souls burn bright In what mortals call sin Outsider’s strife Our praise of life Cuts like a knife In secret the ritual begins Kept hidden inside Not to be clad in sky Just clothed with spirit and mind Let them spring Bare skinned and obscene O perfect form Yet flawed and torn Beauty and truth Refined but uncouth Presented to all so endowed To be prurient is to then be divine Thou bringest Aesthetica’s epoch to mind Transcendent she seems A product of dreams Stepping through life’s fragile shroud We do likewise then Feral beasts within Shouting humanity’s might Perfect image indeed In these chambers of sin Pulsating shadows mesh Sultry clamor ascends In orgic bliss Misty rifts astringe Heirs of Eve unhinged Flux of molten spore The countenance contorts The art of God seed Bathes us in holy pearl white With a thrill overcome Mirth and reverence are one Eden Reclaimed
4.
An old familiar malady approaches doorstop once more Unwelcome, unreasoned, uncorrupted evil to the core Emptiness defined, dehumanized Drained of want and self; a hollow rind Welling up pure terror undefined Surpassed by evermoving time In the purgatory of an afflicted mind Hell on earth manifested its deepest chasm inside Pulmonary pressure, peritoneum’s pull Psychosis sets in; brain plots against fragile soul You and I don’t belong In one piece Twilight melts into a nightmare awake Trancelike state breaking, dejection disgraced Recrudescence: new monster alive Through collective succor and singular pride For those long lost rise above the mortal fray Relieve the sickness, open the cage Release of innocents rotting in pain Every tear counted, ne’er cry out in vain It will not fucking win this day Could be a fate much worse than death So sayeth the sufferers of every age Therein lies the open door Slip out the glorious exit My most powerful tool betrays me again Now a mere weapon dead set on my end Ruiner of all most precious, contentment’s bitter foe Too much, too many you’ve taken Hateful intransigence grows The night darkens… So let us blacken further still The golem crawls from the internal corridor Stopped in its tracks, it never met a spirit so strong For now alive I Most powerful Mind Is over all These hellish depths survived by will We are creatures too stubborn to fail For those long lost rise above the mortal fray It will not win this day
5.
Fight ye now ye perilous heroes Bear to battlefield honor and sword Come ye now ye warriors of Oden Come now claim your reward Come now claim your reward Join all, brethren tonight we will feast When sun gleams in morn we shall stand on battlegrounds Heretic scorn advance to be slain May arms glide swift that fate them to Hel The clashing of steel, a wonderous song of echoes Woes of brotherly deaths I will carry in heart that grants strength to the swing of my blade (Raise thine sword) Should it be a sight which break our foes aghast (Take their lives) Hearken to breath that thoust may discern their last Steady are my hands Honed is my skill Battle to die and die to battle Odes of her beauty, war, she is free Conquering lands and ravaging seas If this day be my final, perhaps I would see That good lady war might smile upon me The spilling of blood, an alluring painting for eyes to behold Those who don the cross shall feel the merciless sting of pagan steel The ground sets masked with bodies by masses Lain trampled ‘neath forces of followers to a false god Thor's will runs course as lightning in veins As I charge forth with haste to face my demise (Heresy) The gods have forged the path I trod (Blasphemy) Norse knees shant be bent to the bastard god Steady are my hands honed is my skill battle to die and die to battle Odes of her beauty, war, she is free Conquering lands and ravaging seas If this day be my final, perhaps I would see That good lady war might smile upon me Enemies besiege, ‘twas my skill to attract I shall stand grim on dealt wretched attack Blood lust is quenched and sight dims to black Before I cross realms, to her, I will smile back Cries throughout Midgard, would ye sing of my praise Whilst body is drawn and put to the flame As ash grasps with wind and dances in plains Remember my name, remember my name [Aaron Solo] (Valhalla) That I would feast and battle once again (Glorious) Shall be my death as I will see my end
6.
Vagabond 04:13
Until the day romanticized Brittle bones unmask my thinly veiled intentions The cold constricts the ego of a burdened soul Drunk on its own beauty and contentment Every glance askance Disaffected from afar Disown, detesting every last unworthy one Civilized I come yet above it I rise Born or molded to be of the kind that abhor If oddity is power A living god am I Overman: a living parchment Poised for scribe’s written word Reincarnate Byronic immortality Transfigured everlasting To drink of prose fermenting Embalmed in ink, eternity stained In my name forever reign [Jake Solo] Many blithe fellows cast an unhappy shadow Flaunting power atop the chain To be mad as a beast feels the most natural thing And thus, the sigil dries upon The sojourner’s deification [Jake Solo] [Aaron solo]
7.
I, the defier of divine misanthropy Deific cruelty I spit upon ‘tween labored breaths How then doth absence bear such despondency? We shall see as heedless neglect I reciprocate At best a figment conjured by quixotic minds At worst the all-pervading overlord forever I’ll despise Pierce and perforate corrupt authority on high I’m the apostle of one faith bereft Of blood perfect to lie The breaking of a heart shan’t cease its blackening These onyx shards will bleed forth hatred deafening Cradled in helpless arms the martyr I profess Bleeding, more penance paid with innocence in vain Empty longing come to be an altar unto me For thee, our advocate for all humanity Obsolete yet immortal with memories stained By a premature end clasped with a chilled hand Twenty-three years we saw endured Transcends thirty-three unproved Backs turned to the absence above O come and let us mourn Remove the padded shroud No angel stood guard this day Never the dead could rejoin our plane When tombs unroll or pine doors sway Sinners all, but who were we? Flesh and blood physically seen So did our patron saint arise With death’s whisper chased that night [Jake solo] Set sail eternal on a short crimson fall From life’s loud farewell trickles a lullaby to melancholy hearts hum everlastingly Awaiting kindred fate never on bended knee You gave up Your destiny forever unfulfilled Maybe you’ve peace at last O come and let us mourn
8.
Absence 02:02
9.
This is the will and testament Of a weary man I keep a smile with gun to head And knife brandished to vein Is it vice or necessity When self-destruction beckons me? Slumber, I beg of thee Envelop this monotony Alter this life that’s come to be Misery dwelling in me Feckless escape I drink of ye End me May these bleak words deliver me My turn to sleep eternally The tipping point: this junction I have at long last bridged When pain of life has conquered Expiration’s dread If tonight I perished What a beautiful monologue Would I leave behind [Aaron Solo] A rope be tied in mercy Of sorrow made a noose The endless night is lulling me Worthless but shrewd A life to conclude With but a step I’ll be fucking free And so it ends, my unwell head put down Worthless remains won’t be missed Cut off waste of air If tethered neck still beats Only one discharge I need Pink mist red matter leads On white wall drips the best of me Farewell to all rotten and fake Our filthy race In a blink the universe will cease to be At least for me
10.
Daughters and sons return Father’s love under pain of death I think therefore I’m damned Since in the garden mind awakened Omniscient eyes surely foresee Its plan to bring such suffering A tear departs from gazing eyes peering past the glistering gates My beloveds once touched by death reside in sanctity reign Cursed by free will; thought hath led me to this place I turn my head, step back in line, and march unto the flames Lives once wrought in virtue share in sentence of endless tortured fate An untold love has deemed us don the boundless mark of shame Infinite is the horde to suffer; resonant screams shall guide our way With each step we near our new abode; onward unto the flames He who takes to the flesh will be stripped of its pleasures She that tasted the fruit shall know its sweetness in measure Those abstaining from life await eternity’s treasures Gift for the unmoved faith in outlandish things unseen My brother, our sister come home Ere You dry our tears may they douse Hell’s coals A child with honest heart is sure to roam Our callous Lord knows not what he’s done The stick or the carrot: To be salvaged or burned The apothecary peddles cures For a bane of his design Pain without end befalls those who doubt the supreme mercy of God Sentient lives; human bonds apprized Until severed by cruel hands divine Seek and you’ll find if Heaven decides To spare you from Its path of carnage so wide Free gift of life with blood sacrifice Verdict to be made when seraph arrives With fiery sword drawn pressed under your jaw Their kindly offer leaves no choice at all Sow thine offspring to heed words of a holy dictator ‘tis not Paradise’s loss if raised a black sheep or traitor Cower and meekly bow in sight of loving Creator Mother has none to fear so long as dogma is retained Wicked are we when held to an impossible standard One must simply believe What could go wrong? [Jake Solo] God damn us to Hell
11.
Abdicate 08:02
What man am I? In the ether before the stroll began What man am I? Still unforeseen was this dead end Upon my trail anticipate Distract from the beauty of sight So very fleeting I would that my eyes see black Cowled robe concealing Till man stepped forward from the pack The plot most grand draws to a close Come now abhorrent subduction sanctified Pass into nothing Holy demise Sweet relief my prize The craftsman dwells A mired smock obscures his splendor Selfdom to swell Biding as life’s own imperator Cold breath caress the wilted face Beyond this day grasped in skeletal embrace Alone we did enter Alone we withdraw Crown’s glimmer fades With oxidation’s stain Throne bends to time Turned casket for the grave Faultless Moirai Drawing next rulers’ rise King abdicates Deposed to starless night These comely three inviting “Follow me to nought indefinitely” Nonentity Earth’s curtain an absurd prelusion Nihility From birth to farce to bleak conclusion Could one yet fathom nonbeing? Soul death: a viewing of our extinction Conceived pre-will So take the reigns Enjoy the ride Leading to the cliff’s edge Logical perception, the terms of my being Embracive nothingness beyond the unforeseen [Aaron solo] Crown’s glimmer fades With oxidation’s stain Throne bends to time Turned casket for the grave Faultless Moirai Drawing; next rulers rise King abdicates Deposed to starless night

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