Searching for a truth, something to hold...
Wrapped in lies, conceits, deceits of old...
Marking the path, following the divine...
Finding nothing…loveless, burning sunshine...

Forthcoming the nine years of darkness...
The nine years of darkness...

But the change was near, cloudy clear...
Warnings unheeded, portented seer...
Signs subtle, paths portrayed...
A new age, the faith betrayed...

Opening to the nine years of darkness...
The nine years of darkness...

Celestial magi breathed the will…
Precessional turning of the stellar wheel…
Darkened rituals of the Ones before…
Tracing inevitables, the dragon’s roar…

Reflected in the dragon’s eyes, the nine years of darkness…
The nine years of darkness…

When the circle pulsed with inner glow...
The earth blanketed with summer snow...
The fires burnt and danced quite slow...
Desolation the final blow...

I saw the nine years of darkness...
The nine years of darkness...

Forth the billowing clouds…
Darkened, the horizon shrouds…
The seas rise and hold the sway…
Upon that, the quickening day…

The day begot the nine years of darkness…
The nine years of darkness…

Falling the darkness, gift of bitter gods...
Bringing the shadows, a time of tallow...
Erasing the times of light, delusions...
Defining those truths, forever shallow...

And the truths were the nine years of darkness...
The nine years of darkness...

Risings, the swiftly falling stars of night...
No heroes left to oppose the opaque light...
Holding the hope, delusional, delirious thrall...
Crashing on the blackened shores of Sheol...

And the waves were the nine years of darkness...
The nine years of darkness...

See the huddled remains, the trappings of old...
No revelations, only the seeking of the bold...
The new age dawns, the fish will drown...
'tis the water from the jug, unbound...

Poured forth were the nine years of darkness...
The nine years of darkness...

From the ashes will arise…
The Ones who refuse to die…
Gathering the fruits, reaping the land…
Balance returned, millennium hand…

And the Clock chimed the nine years of darkness…
The nine years of darkness…

A True Peace

I wandered begotten alone through the twilight reaches...
Gazing upon the spiral of the martyr of my mind...
Drifting downwards, gathering crimson soul-bound leeches...
Dark beauty binds the ways of the twilight kind...
Broken air drawn through cracked lips...
Vengeful salt burns the ancient rips...

Glance at the trail of thoughts before...
The Seekers stalking on wasteland floor...
Crest the rise of the shadow swept plain...
Fearing the tortures of her heaven again...

The silent zephyr thunders through my rampart of resolve...
Gathers me up, drops me upon the brook's edge...
The verdant moss laces into my shattered soul, evolve...
The deep glade soothes my mind, renewing hedge...
Whispers from the valley beyond...
Draws nearer, entrancing song...

Granting the gifts of radiant night...
Removing threads of previous sight...
I will fall once more into the nirvana door...
As her arms crystallize my soul's core...

And through the darkened doorway stands...

The Enfolding...

Wrath...

The Goddess awakens...

Summoning Circle...

Confess...

Lovers et Detractors Engrave...