The Palms of Sorrowed Kings - Obsequiae

Barren halls of kings

Solemn and austere

Carry us through

The leaves of cruel fire

Where only remnants lay

Of all one’s acquired

Stairs fall from this tower

Beneath the ruins of battlements

Labyrinthine crypts beset by the darkened walls

Where no light ever shone upon these cursed bodies

Or the piles of stone brought from the sea

Which carry the weight of their pain

I lay gifts bestowed

Alone in sorrow

Leave me with all that I have left

Lorn, forsaken, bereft of the world

Tattered vestiges of ruined crests unfurled

Here the fallen remember their songs

In sepulchral kingdoms forever gone

Where the sea and the heavens collide

Glinting in the distance

As the moon strains with the tide

Below the standing stone, we come to confess

To a spirit departed under monuments rest

In the outstretched hands of stone

Crowns and thrones

Crumbling cold to dust

As ivy wreathes the bones