An Archangel in bondage

Bediademed, souled

With a murder of ravens

But no less Astarte to behold

Abandoned by Heaven

To the dead, dark and past

Cast Her dispertions

On life's brittle glass



And though Her eyes still held fire

As stonewalls caged the beast

'Gainst the lassitudes of Death

She fought but fell to greet

And mist lies in collusion

She was martyred to teach

That "Divinity and Lust

Are forever forbidden to meet"



But I swore that they would

Before the veil could part our embrace

Twixt Her cold, silent hips i kissed

And promised Christendom in flames



Gravid with madness

Like a feculent dirge

That obsesses the heart

I am covened by words



To avenge Her

Ebon splendour

And surrender

My soul to the dead to achieve

Prophecies of libidinous scourge

Horripilation braying o'er carious herds



Vexing nighmares

And their weak prayers

To a no one there

To hinder Her decree



To weed the world of their disease



As shadows unblind mine eyes to see

The meat that is their congragation



How they plead to the skies

But this is mere foreplay to war



Scar-riddled saffron eves bleed like the conjugal

Vestal daughters giving throat to the priest

A psychophant, the despoiler of faith

Now His skinless crucifixion feeds a winged diocese



For Her interred

I tore a battle banner from His hide

Splashed in red goetia

Hues of Hell and deicide

So come the night

Its obsidian light

Is a master whom disasters

Suck upon like concubines

And under black skirts

That whisper of delight

Darkseeds near