The Science of Shifting - Glorior Belli

I’m traveling the road to ruin

It leads to my transformation

I am the scion of ecstasies

Misplaced in mundane dimensions

Tie the clove hitch tightly 'round me

Lest my soul be cleaved

Seek a tree whose roots delve deeply

Nourished by long-forgotten deeds

And lash me there eternally

To a maddening melody

I’ve inherited the calling

Of the accursed initiates

Drawn to secret incantations

And evocations of the damned

A thief of tomes of stolen truths

I’ve crossed the spiritual abyss

All that I have ever beheld Ceases to matter or endure

The former world in which I’ve dwelled

So shamelessly wrecked asunder

Saturated by black visions…

Oily and viscous intrusions…

Sensing the scourge of centuries

So viscerally in gloaming…

Soiled, misshapen, I am shifting

With my eyes secretly lifting

Black revelations I have sought

See what wisdom this bane has wrought:

So erdite, so pure, iimbued

With arcane knowledge of the dead…

Malady of the mind ensues

Lest lucidity deals me dread

Tie the clove hitch tightly 'round me

Lest my soul be cleaved

Seek a tree whose roots delve deeply

Nourished by long-forgotten deeds

And lash me there eternally

To a maddening melody