Cheating Death

Immortality gnaws at my flesh
Searching for a way to cheat death
Incantations, books of spells with hope to cure my mortality

Speaking out ancient words
Those words begin to take shape
Faceless beings in the shadows await my command

Immortality gnaws at my flesh
Searching for a way to cheat death
Incantations, books of spells with hope to cure my mortality

Relieve me of my ways
Grant me eternal life
There is a voice in my mind
Confirming that it is time

My flesh begins to boil
Limbs have gone numb
Horns emerging from my skull
Back splits - wings start to grow
I have transformed

Now in the shadows I roam