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100 Meters Down

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Sinking deep
To the depths below
Where all light dies
And the world grows cold

A forgotten civilization
Remnants of a dark creation

Tortured screams
Resound the void
Convulsing in agony
Writhing in antiquity

Empyrean bells have begun to toll
The sound awakens a chorus of souls

Twenty thousand dead before my eyes
They can't recall where they had died
Condemned beneath the waves of eternity
Weighed down by sins of mortal tragedy

"We wander on in this crypt unseen
All that remains of the great atrocity
Izanami, the keeper of souls
Seek her ahead in the depths below"

Turbulent pool of discarded dreams
Tortured apparitions of agony
Drifting on a current of endless suffering
Drags me down beneath
To Yomi

At the bottom of this ethereal sea
Polluted pillars give way to debris
Izanami calls from on her throne of the diseased
Into the palace I take refuge to reprieve

The stoic facade of a decomposing queen
A decrepit throne of broken corpses obscene
A porcelain face with burning eyes of fury
A visage scarred beyond the will to be seen

Where the gods had once fallen from her tears
Now trails of fire trace fractured skin
This hideous fury comes forth
I grovel on knee and beg to depart

Please. I. Beg. You.
Send. Me. Back. To.
The. place. and. time.
Before. I. arrived

"Mortal!
How dare you to presume?
To come before me
And dare to decree?

No
This simply will not do
For this is my domain
And here you shall remain

That is of course unless
Maybe there is some use
To bring these souls to rest
Grant this at my request

Go and light the fires on the shores
Guide the dead back to the living once more!
Do me this one simple task
And I shall send you back"

The earth quakes and the seas drain
The palace crumbles and the souls disperse
Neither in the land of dead nor living
I wander on to light the flames

I heed my calling towards the tombs
I hear her voice within my mind
"Light the fires on the shores
And call the dead to life!"

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from Ogasawara, released January 7, 2021

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