Cimmerian Shamballa

Splintering blistered fingers
Chalk smears cake my body white
Sweat perspiring down my face
Retracing lines to tighten this seal
Clandestinely twining with devilry coursing through the night
My wicked enchantments hurl my body as it's careening through dust.

Through dust and light I feel I've made it
As my heart climbs through my ribs it tells me so the specter shows me so
The darkness surrounding is growing as the specter sheds to begin anew
Within it's body they are glowing on through her.

Their faces shine fiercely with such deep sinew
This crooked mystery envelops all space around me as the many faces speak as one
"Why have you come here; what has brought you through?
Why have you come here; what has brought you through to my domain!"
My body falters
I feel myself begin to crumble as rickety noises force themselves from my throat.

I begin to form some sense into an explanation
"I need to see this, to feel this, to breathe!
To see, to feel, to breathe in your miasma."
"Take refuge in the carcass my darkening soul
Albeit by the force of beauty incarnate, do not release yourself into this world
Here your essence is soluble."