Alghazanth

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Alghazanth


Profoundly punished am I 
Bound to bear witness to this global masquerade 
In which kings and fools may be the same 
Theatrical innocence and whoredom are abloom 
In the rotten hierarchy fundamentally deaf to all truths 

Narrow is the path of the compassionate 
Vain is the philanthropic approach 
Making haste from the womb to the stage 
To star an incoherrent martyrplay 

I bow to Osiris-Typhon 
And to the grandeur of His ascendancy 
Within, about and beyond me 
I extol the sun-outshining Mercury 
That steals the feeble's vision 

Consider me as a potential iconoblast 
As a gun pointed at your foreheads 
Without mercy and remorse 
I tread on the debris of benevolence 
And assault the most sacrosanct 

Corrupted to the core and, yet, so sinless 
Terminally short on dignity 
Just barely breathing in morality's stranglehold 
If self-delusion was a crime, 
You'd be taken straight to the gallows 

Narrow is the path of the compassionate 
Vain is the philanthropic approach 
Making haste from the womb to the stage 
To star an incoherrent martyrplay 

Profoundly rewarded am I 
Stripped of all humane amidst this global masquerade