Antithesis

[00:28.25] This vision lies before me
[00:31.58] The urge to murder the soul
[00:34.74] This foreign entity
[00:37.62] A stranger inescapable
[00:40.73] A face so unfamiliar
[00:43.58] Yet shown in every wayward smile
[00:46.67] Behold the lord of the flies:
[00:49.85] The impulse swarming in my chest
[00:52.47] Undulate inconsistently
[00:56.36] Wavering sporadically to no resolve
[01:01.54] The fate laid out before me slipping away ephemeral, tentative
[01:26.00] I am not the author of my wayward dreams
[01:32.66] Save mercy for the guilty
[01:37.82] Ever-present help in my time of need
[01:44.38] The Accuser will acquit me
[01:54.83] I hurl my curses to you
[02:00.88] Yet find them damning me
[02:06.51] The mirror image that taunts me
[02:09.95] The scathing spite that I know
[02:12.83] Cancerous contaminant
[02:15.42] Ravaging my righteous soul
[02:22.56] Despite antipathy,
[02:24.96] I see now my dependence
[02:28.06] Though I invite your overthrow
[02:31.41] I don't beckon your severance
[02:34.58] Your audience gives me comfort
[02:37.32] That my will has been undermined
[02:40.29] If my charity has been usurped
[02:43.03] Then damn forgiveness, I'm justified
[03:00.03] I am not the author of my wayward dreams
[03:05.88] Save mercy for the guilty
[03:09.09] I'll call upon the universal scapegoat
[03:11.81] Ever-present help in my time of need
[03:18.11] The Accuser, will acquit me
[03:21.23] I'll wear my shame underneath a lambskin
[03:42.32] You are the embodiment
[03:44.91] Of all my avarice
[03:47.90] Archetype of my resentment
[03:51.26] You are malevolence in me
[04:21.67] "Incarnation is a myth" [1]
[04:24.25] [1] Youssef Ziedan, Azazeel (London: Atlantic Books, 2009)
[04:29.72] Translated by Jonathan Wright, 302.
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