Luyện nghe bài hát II (Penance)

That humiliating arbitrary
Your cruelty in an endless cycle of decrepitude
slackens with each passing seconds
Flesh weakens and
Bones in agony
dissolve
Hopes
A pulp of deepest despair
A mind enfeebled and
Gazes upon a path of waste and regret
Gazes only to t he cold and the empty

All fall
All fail
All fall
All fail

And so with each heavy, broken-backed I inch closer to my reckoning
stiff, sloughing, sagging
Resonating with decay like catgut strings
Draped across a stave of rotting

The cathedral looms... Tearing, oppressive,
once echoed in the chapels of cold stone
Where cowled figures dripped with feverish
And of reverence flickered in the torpid darkness of unanswered prayers

Stoic monolith that bleeds redemption
Onyx shed like skin
Penance driven the maw of the soil
Stygian crust that chokes on the carcasses of the

is no room here
Suffocation... Rejection...

A soul slithers in vapid vestibules


Fading of what once breathed false proclamations
Granite by the echoes of supplication
visages gaze in judgement
A solemn phalanx as one
One totem of accusation
Choral, somnolent the marrow
Of a laced with corrosive regret

Guilty - - Cringing
by stone
Withering within the cloisters
The last shreds of hope thus scatter

I see what lurks within these sepulchral shadows
Emanating whispers of a thousand condemnations

One past condemnations!

hands reach - coiling, cloying

My name is but

And I flee