Black Carousel

Firebreathing nightmares charge in spiral pack
Shadow covered effigies laid upon rusting tracks
Damnation layered canopy of avarice and hate
Forever going nowhere, twist of morbid fate
Lions of the blackest mane dance macabre between
The graveyard stones carved in ebon seas of dream
Reapers ride as horsemen dead round in twilight sun
Four in number coming close, the carnival’s begun

These are the words that I come to see
Shaking loose the chains, seeking to be free
Blurred visions of Dante pass in the dark
Fading torch of life returns to primal spark

Ancient mad calliopes whisper in atonal chimes
Discordant melodies that break and lose their time
Distant like the coming sun born to die at night
Watching blind until the clouds extinguish every light
Guiding poles that hold the sway soon will matter not
From cracked to crumbled while the moral fibers rot
The harness breaks as the circle once more spins
Crash of hooves, cry of war, and the infernal din

These are the oceans that I chose to tread
Drowning in the waters black with dread
Gasping for air that I never really breathe
Wondering what there was to be believed

Repetitious history comes back around in time
Listen for the silence that lay beyond the rhyme
Age of reason, one more ride, little more to do
Waiting for the end, sleeping ‘til it’s through
Nightshade gilded carousel forever waits beyond
Its fate is laid in carved souls of the human pawn
Question not what purpose in hallucinatory rites
Lest sanity be swallowed and fade away from sight

These are the times that I dwell in sin
Blackest are the seeds sown from within
Harvest of the righteous and vilest ways
Churning gears of Death at the end of days



Regards,

BlackLeshii