The Night Devours

A vicious curse has been cast on me
By a doppelganger with a parasitic smile
A shifting visage shrouded in darkness
How could so many faces seem so vile?

Though at first captivated by beneficence
Vainglory and majesty at once did conspire
With demagoguery and mockery
Once reviled with suspicion

Now I wept onto hands stained crimson
As chastened love died there in my arms

Whence came the onset of this aporia?
The thinning and ailing of time?
Am I haunted by memories
Or merely delusions of a fanatic mind?

An epoch spent drowning in despair
Enraptured by self righteous sin?
Or predeteriminstic heretic hypocrisy
Hellbound corruption from within?

God alone knew how I felt
Consumed as I was by jealousy and ignorance
Covetous of earned rest
As distorted visions molest me
I assume the burden of The Beast
I've submitted and debased myself
As a disciple of this Cloven Priest

Another day bleeds past me
I can't count the hours
Remnants of dying light fade
As The Night Devours

Another day bleeds past me
I can't count the hours
Remnants of dying light
As The Night Devours

His visage wreathed in darkness
How could so many faces seem so vile?
His masque once of pure arcane beauty
Transforming before my sight

His warm smile inverting once beguiling
Now distorting into perverse caricature of life
As diabolical grin tears through the remnants of skin
I fled in horror, terrified
Yet every time I close my eyes
I see these faces, taunting
Haunting me until I die

Another day bleeds past me
I can't count the hours
Remnants of dying light fade
As The Night Devours