Ascension

My love, ascent me to places unknown

Valhalla, the table of the old gods

To break bread, and to merrymake

With the goddesses of love, lust and fate

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Onto the stairway that leads away from you

Holy, blaspheme, virtuous and ruin

For faraway from you, is where I renew my fealty to you

And tell you, yet, my most intricate lie

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In that web, we savour and die

Caught up in our own little thing

Fairytale of love, greed and sin

We are people forsaken, of the same kin

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Fallen, we desecrate and trespass

Each lapse of faith, each transgression

So delicious to behold,

Oh, the treats we share and sow

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And dance, in the Devil’s adobe

False dawns, and more beautiful lies

So irredeemable in White God’s eyes

We rapture on blood, bleed from the innocent, the lost

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And we carry down the Devil’s road

In defiance, the audacity to be free

To think, to reason, to not beg and be meek

To not pray for salvation, from a spiteful god

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So the curse is ours, eternal torment and all