• Can you hear the gates open?
    They pull against time
    They pull me into their sinister grasp
    I’m bound by all that I’ve been worshiped for
    So now will they lay me to sleep?
    I can feel my name floating over the corpses
    I can hear the heartbeats of those I’ve left behind
    If only for an instant, I would love to feel their warmth again
    If only for an instant, I would love to feel alive
    I can remember when the hearts were blooming
    So beautiful with such incandescent fruits.
    Yet before my eyes lay the rotting flesh
    Of those blossoms I trampled across
    I want to cross the lines those blossoms left for me.
    I wish to feel the sun dissipating my flesh
    I want to know the taste of a glorious rapture
    But I’ll never be given that grace
    These demons will wear away at my soul
    Only to leave It here so dismembered
    So violently beaten down
    Even so, I deserve these painful memories
    I belong to the night
    I let myself fall through the cracks of oblivion long ago
    So I will not cry out for you anymore
    I learned my place
    So now I can silently slip away