Famished for Breath

Thou shalt precipitate History
Those days of yonder
And the solemn roots of the human race
Into the furnace fraught with fire unquenchable
The names of all things thou shalt feed
To the undying worm
And rejoice at the mumblings of a once potent tongue

The haughty strides of Time thou shalt put to halt
And mangle Past and Future with ghastly wounds
While for these deeds thou hast
Borne universal reproach
Laugh at their vain designs, for scarce the sun hath
Finished his journey, nothing remains but
The dread tribunal of an everlasting Present

Forge a bond in glowing iron the manacle
Faith with raging Madness, another
Reeking of nitre, to chain Truth with Fear
Lo and behold, the first of many harvests
Of corpses is thine!
Famished for breath
An angular neck and eyes aghast
The effulgence of Horror in this New World
Is without peers
Thou shalt celebrate the conception and rise
Of the New Man, to whom all he eats or drinks
Is propagated malediction
A Man pregnant with infernal flame
Standing on the devastation
Of all things past