Such Cruelty Never Rests

Old legends tell of a river winding like a serpent

Through dense and forgotten marshland

Leading to the ruins of a long dead civilisation

Pyramids aligned with the stars

Their shadows touching the river bed at dusk

Painted faces of the past haunt the chambers

The soil rich from centuries of sacrifice and torture

Vines and unearthed tree roots entangle the ruins

Creating their own passages and doorways

The whispers tell that such untouched mysticism and so much bloodshed stirs unnatural forces

Spiritual mercury drawing tormented souls and keeping the damned from the grave

...such cruelty never rests

Calling to the blackhearted in their dreams

Visions of a plague, genocide and forbidden rituals

The subliminal path to this temple of the sun and moon embedded

So that once again the tongue of the old can hiss the incantations to unleash this ancient terror

As the sun rises piercing the water

I hear a name being called

A name i have only heard in my dreams yet i am lucid

Through the thickets of mist

I find myself blinded by the monolith

Bleeding the sun with its apex and stirring the darkest of sense

An eerie beauty suffocated by tragedy and loss

Cries of putrefied innocence cause the ravens to take flight

The archaic hieroglyphs tell of untold horror

An evil of the ages bound in these stones

Forgotten by all to preserve life

Destined to be found to destroy life

...such cruelty never rests