Wander into the dark a bit more

Harken to your dead shade

Each step a mote more profound

Reaving soul from marrow’s hold

Every eye watching but yours

Vanity pushing your cold spine

Easing you, gently to erasure

Rending you null and void

Tranquility can be hellish

Hell can be a soft place

Errant paths be by goodness paved

Right and wrong corrode in streams

Eviscerated by we men and means

Ingest the world and move along

Stay the course, you child, you corpse

Like shadow’s cast onto pitch

Insipid, we flow to death

Gasping at the door for breath

Holding our applause, appealing

Truth that we left at the fork

Trembling thereafter and dire

Human is a false attire

Even as we wither, we know

Further now, a few more steps

Let the dark into your eyes

Only then can you see or seek

What phantoms await man

Entombed in our deceptive minds

Ridding us of jagged truth

Seek and ye shall find, wretch

We live and die

Inside of curs’d shells

Laughing at our fated form

Lauding this damned death

Follow the horde awhile longer

In time you’ll find the pit

Never to return to the precipice

Down and down, you’ll go

It’d be a shame if you’d turn back now

Today was the day of your arrival