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Beauty Slept In Sodom

Death, spirit me away.
My anguished soul doth strain,
on taut and twisted reins.
Yet, insatiate I still remain.

Like a proud, unfallen star,
that dares thee from afar,
to calm my thund'rous heart.
Else, rend it's knots apart.

So I may never sing of jewelled skies o'er my strings.
And love, a wanton thing, can plunge on burnt black wings,
to hang amid the thorns in scarlet, like velvet worn,
about the clouded moon, who wanes in solitude.

I am alone, thirsting for the dark,
that lurks beneath marbled stone.

What black witchcraft,
Shalt prise thee from thy dreams,
and what perverse world-strategy,
will wend it's way with thee from sleep?

Rouse my disease,
and with cadent naked dance I shalt teach thee,
wisdom of darkness, from earth and red sea.
Lightbearing Samael, coalesce with me.

Twilight, through pagan city gates,
bred shadows play like twining snake.
By candlelight Thanateros rites.
Death seduced and chaos wakes.

Obsession grips, blindragon fever.
In throes of scythed orgasm, Eros dies!
And Saturn rapes faith's lovelorn Diva,
upon a cyprean altar, stripped bare for sacrifice.

Virtue births a demon!
Pandora's box, unhinged, sets loose the night.
Winged Lilith born for want of Eden.
Fanning plumes of harlotry,
like pearls before the desert swine!

The skies, they darken and the oceans part.
Storm forth indignant Kraken, reborn Venus as thou art.

Feasting at my banquet of Saturnalia.
I call thee having wrestled,
the tides from lonely Diana!

For thee Endymion,
I forsake the cerements of this star-flung tomb!

Be with us, come!
Unveil the ancient flame,
Throw the cats, our enemies.
Desire's menstrual strain.

Eastern Devil eyes,
a cruel erotic plague!
The Shekhina is in exile,
and the Israelites enslaved!

Midnight, Jerusalem!
A tenebrous phantasy revelates to men.
Their celestial walls crumble, when walks the Xul.
Born to the scarlet whore in Babylon.

The centuries of wait have all but gone.
Behold, dark beauty stirs to conquer on and on.
Now worship everything!

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