+ The Baying Of The Hounds +

~And what else can one do but just let go? You tell me your Secret Justine, because I know none… I need freedom from your haunting and shouting remembrance. My curse, the damage takes my sleep away, my lifetime gaping Hole. I Hear the Baying of the Hounds...

In the distance, I hear them devouring
Pest-ridden jackals of the earth,
Diabolical beasts and roaming the forests
In wait and constant protectors,
Calling you to sit by his side
Your self-loathing image in his flesh
A revelation upon which you linger.

His words are flies,
Swarming towards the true insects
Feasting on buried dreams
And spreading decay upon your skin.
His eyes spew forth a darkness
That cut through and paralyze
Casts light upon your secrets
Forced to confront your enemies.

His mouth is a vortex,
Sucking you into it's pandemonium
Fools you with a helping hand of ashes
Reached out in false dismay.
His body is a country,
The cities lay dead beyond despair
Friends turned enemies unable to come clean
In a rising fog of reeking death.

Everything you believed is a Lie,
Everyone you loved is a death-burden.
So you take comfort in him
And you are receptive to stark wishes.
No longer struggling to declare your stand
You would inflict no harm to others,
They are unaware and in a loop of futile events
You are everything, they are nothing.

Drown in the deep mire,
With past desires.
Beneath the mire,
Drown desire now with You.

Lined up verses on dead skin:
"The tainted lips of a stranger
Resting upon hers".

And I embrace bereavement
Everything beloved is shattered anyway.
I would devote myself to anyone,
I would accept any flaws.

I am too weak to resist.
Tension vibrating with horror,
Finding the outcast in my eyes,
Pushing nerves on a puppet,
Endless poison in my veins
Clean intent now tainted with death.

And so, cold touch now inhumane
Every waking hour.
Awaiting a reverie to unfold
And now they are calling me
Louder by the minute…

The Baying of the Hounds,
Calling me back to my home…

ByDamianDior
[Opeth//Ghost Reveries]