Trenches again Define me and you This land that I aim This body I claim Are my finitude All for one Is all for nothing My reign's deserved Oceans, forests Bring them all to me I'm cattle, I'm shepherd The one to crush the throne of consternation There's a lament of perdition Coming to break all the others free A god in its own right Life-sized and greedy I'm nurturing the pain I'm breathing life in every source of contempt, Fear or deceit Above the heights of reason Beyond the instinctive shields I'll bury myself in the quicksand You, the cure of yesterday The menace of repentance Haunting the abyss While turning away Leaving nothing to amass Nowhere to be found and No way to return In free falling Sculptures of salt, A feeling's death, To witticism led Now the mark on her forehead Reads the epitaph In the lair of exile Stagnation retreats Here is the after Fathomlessly As all dark reveals And from purest of throes I struck gold In the chase of liberty The tyrant's soul is undressed Shame exposed This dazzling Sun will no more Grip me here Its fetter shards though shall linger in me To eventually make a tyrant out of you Now the tyrant is you This is the freedom I chose for my own