A vicious curse has been cast on me By a doppelganger with a parasitic smile A shifting visage shrouded in darkness How could so many faces seem so vile? Though at first captivated by beneficence Vainglory and majesty at once did conspire With demagoguery and mockery Once reviled with suspicion Now I wept onto hands stained crimson As chastened love died there in my arms Whence came the onset of this aporia? The thinning and ailing of time? Am I haunted by memories Or merely delusions of a fanatic mind? An epoch spent drowning in despair Enraptured by self righteous sin? Or predeteriminstic heretic hypocrisy Hellbound corruption from within? God alone knew how I felt Consumed as I was by jealousy and ignorance Covetous of earned rest As distorted visions molest me I assume the burden of The Beast I've submitted and debased myself As a disciple of this Cloven Priest Another day bleeds past me I can't count the hours Remnants of dying light fade As The Night Devours Another day bleeds past me I can't count the hours Remnants of dying light As The Night Devours His visage wreathed in darkness How could so many faces seem so vile? His masque once of pure arcane beauty Transforming before my sight His warm smile inverting once beguiling Now distorting into perverse caricature of life As diabolical grin tears through the remnants of skin I fled in horror, terrified Yet every time I close my eyes I see these faces, taunting Haunting me until I die Another day bleeds past me I can't count the hours Remnants of dying light fade As The Night Devours