With fist on hilt I wade thru guilt towards the Bridge of Spasms A flailing limb cast across the yawning Maul of Chasms Hooked to ledge at sanity's edge steel convict clamped in irons It undulates squirms like bait hung 'bove pit of lions That fickle whore Fate forced my gait to tread this skyward path On skeletal thread blind man led by echoes of strangled laugh With every step terrors swept fears like flies in rift of mind I crawled, cracked nails clawed the creaking boards of crooked spine Torpid Styx twist viscid fist through bowels of howling Deep My demons spare not one nightmare ever rode plague-ridden sleep Nailed to the mast! Flee pox of past! Ignore the sirens' shrieking hearts Sail the flux! Ride upheavals! Dive beyond immortal charts In lee of Bridge of Spasms I split among the atoms In lee of Bridge of Spasms I split among the atoms Like oroboros I swallow tale like oroboros I swallow tale A Raw nerve stretches ganglion curve till ventricles erupt I flow like blood through floating vein's arterial aqueduct Crest the arch, gaze aghast, upon Oblique of Great Divide It mirrors morass, life-spans' collapse, loop of ego's pride