Rise Bear witness to the astral chaos Echoing within your once-sacred halls Heat embracing Endless horizon Light, a curse In ailing landscapes Not unlike a bleeding wound A festered scab wrought with disease Sky agape Miasmic windows Whispered though Obscure dimensions A landscape withering in the clutch of an arthritic pale grasp Tremorous hands grasping for Once-held brilliant suns of endless luster Now an ailing mass of blight Repugnant in their hideous forms Carrying a blinding plague To unleash upon barren earth Futility in endless struggle Driven by unconscious reason An incredible weight such as this Is a planet drifting in empty space Devoid of kindling and ash The plague is never born And yet it scours the landscape With unspoken splendor Anxious molding of the clay Into the image of Sisyphus Heat embracing Endless horizon Light, a curse In ailing landscapes Not unlike a bleeding wound A festered scab wrought with disease Sky agape Miasmic windows Whispered though Obscure dimensions A landscape withering in the clutch of an arthritic pale grasp