Obsidian Hell

Orpheus lead me deep into Hell, Dagon Sphere in hand

Away from the burning mirrors and through the shadow lands

Tonight I'll leave the sunless walls, the time is getting short

To find my hidden destiny, the only chance I have

Twilight over Gorgoroth, forboding gates of bronze

Oblivion awaits me there, a sea of blackest night

Despair rules my barren heart, frustration in my mind

But the lyre charms me sweet and pure, infusing me with hope

I see the suffering of broken souls, laughter turns to screaming

Naked mangled bodies forever walking the circle of perpetual hunger

Merciless, the dragon spreads its plague over the world

Blessing the wickedness of its blackened hordes

Phantoms of anxiety magnifying fear

Cursing in misery the ones with the faith to believe in the

Wisdom revealed in the loneliness of solitude

When thoughts and memories are the only truth

Bathed in silver in the dead of winter

Rimed with frost like the skeletal trees

The jester strikes me within my lucid nightmare, I'm chosen to stay alive

A palace of demons on the blue hill bear witness to my trial

Lost in starlight amidst a swarm of enemies, battling every imaginable foe

Deserted by seraphs, I call out in rage, is this my fate

Entrapped in an ancient war, I reach for the mystic buckler

To quell the flaming onslaught of the avernal throng

A sacred relic of the knights of the elements

A reminder that peace must always prevail

Chained to the obelisk by the sovereign killers

Waiting for the sight of the robed tormentor

Paralyzed and overwhelmed, eyes roll into my skull

This is my Crucimentum

Molded in the fire of the living forge

Hammered for impurity and thrust into the water

The process repeats to drive out the porous slag

This technique if withstood produces true steel

An enigmatic sacrifice before the hooded masses

Princes of pain, rituals of blood and death

I shall be the one to achieve the heavenly

Obsidian Hell - ninth candle of the second plane of seven

Caught in this strange place somewhere in the pit

From the depths of the chasm I see the tunnel's end

The winds change, the storm recedes, spring is in the air

Happy for deliverance, I cry

Reflecting on the dark maze that consumed me within

Grateful for the knowledge gained, wiser now am I

Leaving the abyssal realm, Elysian Fields before my eyes

A final bridge that I must cross, Janus greets me