Ihsahn

The Pain is Still Mine

Ihsahn


The word is easy 
dripping sweet and cocky from the tongue 
vaguely describing the taste of blood 

A distant cry arise 
from the fathomless well 
that is my soul 
I can not hear the words 
so I throw my heart in 
like a coin 
and wish that it would sink 
forever 

A purpose, a sacrifice 
or merely temptation? 
Is my solitude anything but a perversion 
of my vanity? 

I never cared for this weak inclination 
this paranoid tendency 
to flock 
And in between the noise 
all the guilt 
a silence would carry my spirit away 
from diminishing obsessions 
Away from fools and poisonous flies 

The birth of a dreamer 

Behold, an angel of vengeance 
a lion 
a sword of fire 
Alas, the burden of my heart 
is violence undone 
pain unfulfilled 
silence 

When I finally cut deep 
into the flesh of giult 
the un-naked body of shame 
and the veins of repentance 
open wide 
sending rivers of blood 
into my mouth 
the pain is still mine