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Crystal Summit

from Crystal Summit by High Priest

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I’ve seen the altar grief
Burned out in the pallor of disbelief
Death-fires dance and glow
Flicker in the pass, through wind and snow
I’ve fallen down to the ground; a secret ministry that moans and cries like a choir
Swept up in apotheosis; a procession all under the Banner of Saturn.

And you can’t turn back; it’s never up
Because the trail runs blind: meandering, disfigured.

I’ve never heard tell, of such a Penrose Mount forlorn,
Where ten-thousand shattered, deformed horizons burn
Relinquished Desire: Axis of Extinction turns

The fevering, the bone ground down
Macerated, Incandescent urns.
And painted slate-black, Fate, stunned yawns
With the pale promise of the descent, fades, new dawns
And the cold atrophied bodies, who were guides, Unburdened by their lives
Wandering, sing
From the firmament, one-by-one, crippled testaments…
Fallen, Frozen, Landmarks: Libations to the Summit.

Plunged into the numbing torchlight
The Resolute Apostle enthralled
To witness unforgotten torment
And breath deep the Martyrs’ awn
Dispatched the paraphernalia; both vicar and victim are those who gaze long
Where Descent and Ascent are self-same: throw the thoughts out, and a World withdraws.

To peer no further
The needle touches
The praying prophets outstretched and inscribed
Demanded penance, from Butchers’ hands
Unburdened by Humiliation
A Maze of eyes
Frozen alive
A myriad of Rats in the night sky
Mutilated, bodies are seething
All in flames, kowtow to the Khrystal.

I’m holding court, with the Other creatures
Burned in effigy to the Other gods.

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from Crystal Summit, released June 28, 2019

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