Shrouded Sleep

In shrouded sleep I lie

As my astral body is cast through time

Flying through infinity on scaly wings

Transcending nightmares and the waking world

The necromancer buried alive struggles to break free

From the black-masked dementors of inferno

A cyclonic cone of fear roars beneath the ground

Its very presence paralyzes the living

He'll overcome the sting of death, his tormentors will see

Armies of a thousand seraphim, invulnerable to be

No more shall mankind hide from evil's wrath and hateful lies

Our immortality prevails by the failing nephil cries

I enter other realms of magic

Witches incant behind clouds of colored smoke

The passion - a rapture of wicked convulsion

Spellbound to the dream forevermore

Haunting entreaties to sail through the heavens

Where galaxies glow like enlightened palaces

Fables and mythos alive in the twilight

Channeling the legends of a nameless past

I sit within a cube of glass, a thrall enchants my eyes

Warlocks surround the crystal tearing away the skies

Invoking primal chaos, former ages pass

Stalks of flame engulf the earth in burning gas

Monuments rise proud as mountains

Symbols of conquest achieving eternity

To dust and ash reduced as a floating musty sea

A mausoleum of ancient memories

Great kings have come and gone by the sun and moon

For all their power their bodies now drift like desert sands

A wish - a soul trapped in an endless forest

A timeless maze adrift in emptiness

Some dreams die and some live on though none can ever tell

Of how their fates were scattered in the cosmic wishing well

Another time into the night on silver spheres we glide

Another life will come to be and join the churning tide