Souls swept away as dead leaves from the earth
Illusive Ascent an endless rebirth
Of tragic portents doomed to align
To live is to suffer
To live is to strive
Witness the fate of man
Enthralled by a lesser self
And the heart of a beast
Generations persisting enduring the lies
To live is to suffer
To live is to die
Hold on
To childish beliefs
False apparitions revered and enshrined
See the primordial truth
Written in our blood
Written in the stars
The phantom of order casts shadows of power
Shielding the eyes of a meek congregation
Doomed to repeat in bleak obligation
Follow evil's black stem
Root of creation foundational cause
Watch hardship twist as it taints
Organic matter and the structure of forms
Burdened with grief
Constructing justice illusion catharsis
Impossible to deceive
Knowledge inscribed in the mind
To live is to die
Hold on
To the childish belief
That mere ideas can touch the divine
See the primordial truth
Written in our blood
Written in the stars
As madness frays
At the edge of the mind
Where numinal glimpses of light
Elude darkened eyes
Shrouded in anguish
Within and without eternal
Over and under the truth shall remain
At the centre of all to perceive so to suffer in vain