Luyện nghe bài hát II (Penance)

That humiliating arbitrary
Your cruelty in an endless cycle of decrepitude
Skin slackens each passing seconds
Flesh and softens
Bones in agony
Dreams
slough
A blackened of deepest despair
A enfeebled and afraid
Gazes back a path of waste and regret
Gazes ahead only to t he cold and the

All will
All fail
All will
All will

And so with heavy, broken-backed step I inch closer to my reckoning
Sinews stiff, sloughing,
Resonating slow decay like catgut strings
Draped a stave of rotting timber

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

Stoic monolith that bleeds black
Onyx shroud like skin
Penance into the maw of the soil
Stygian crust that chokes on the carcasses of the

There is no room
Suffocation... Rejection...

A hopeless soul slithers in vestibules


Fading of what once breathed false proclamations
shaped by the echoes of supplication
Myriad visages in judgement
A phalanx stands as one
One totem of accusation
Choral, somnolent striking the
Of a soul laced with corrosive

Guilty - Pathetic -
Crushed by
Withering within the inquisition
The shreds of waning hope thus scatter

I cannot see what lurks these sepulchral shadows
Emanating whispers of a thousand condemnations

One past condemnations!

Freezing reach - coiling, cloying

My name is but

And I again