Secondary Surface

The waves create a comely scene,

A sighting so inviting that no living man can seem

To gaze away. Though once pristine,

That brilliant shore is nothing more

Than a gorgeous fallacy.

Move faster.

Disaster is right on course,

And Nature shows no signs of remorse.

Take shelter in this casket.

Decorate the catacombs.

No grave can be a home

If you're digging on your own.

The virgin ground is pure and sound,

But silence can be violent when it forces noise to drown.

The margins have been crossed,

And all is lost in the flittering of dust,

So now we must find solid-ground.

Move faster.

Disaster is right on course,

And Nature shows no signs of remorse.

Take shelter in this casket.

Decorate the catacombs.

No grave can be a home

If you're digging on your own.

In exile, you'll wonder

How you wandered this far,

How you crawled in the dark.

Unabashed by all your faults,

Unaware of all your flaws

In the darkness you will crawl back home.

You'll crawl back home,

And dig that grave all on your own.

- afm

In Accordance to Prophecy

The turning of the year precedes our fate,

An anagram to solve.

In everybody's ear I am coiling their will to withdraw.

Claim to know me.

Dare speak my name,

Aware that once exclaimed

I'll seek them out.

This ends tonight.

A wrong can make a right

If you can fake the wrong direction.

Confess your crimes.

They can't be justified

If your noble lips are constantly shut tight.

My mind can read what your eyes have seen.

I'll catch you while you sleep.

A cant can't save thee from the prophecy.

Claim to know me.

Dare speak my name,

Aware that once exclaimed

I'll seek them out

Again.

This ends tonight.

A wrong can make a right

If you can fake the wrong direction.

Confess your crimes.

They can't be justified

If your noble lips are constantly shut tight.

Claim to know me.

See this barren form I've cursed.

Take his life, and end your thirst.

Breathe in slowly.

I'll be sleeping sound tonight

When your eyes go red to white.

Keep your fucking lips sealed tight.

All your words can't justify your actions.

You're wasting your breath to whoever will listen,

But it's unyielding Death who needs the convincing.

- afm

As Dionysus Once Told Me

Fight water with fire;

You'll drown out the fuse.

Fight water with water;

You'll never win, you'll never lose.

You played it safe.

Now slip into the deluge.

Hold on forever;

Your arms will surely fall.

Stand strong forever;

Impossible. You need to fall,

So rest your limbs

Or lose them all.

Weep over your mother;

Your tears won't give her life.

Sleep off them tremors;

Once you wake, you're numb inside.

So lay back down

If you're so set to die.

Fight water with fire,

You'll drown out the fuse.

Fight water with water,

You'll never win, you'll never lose.

You'll never change.

No, you can't be saved.

You needn't pray

When it's the gods who fix the duels.

Code Burgundy

Cease from quoting biblical lines.

Forging faith won't wake you.

Open your eyes and still you'll find

A spectral view.

Lucid dreams are confusing my mind.

Keeping clean cannot redeem my life

If it's real this time.

Send the elders to bed with cryptic words.

If they talk don't listen.

Denying the truth can't be deferred

When it's the lie you're missing.

Lucid dreams are confusing my mind.

Keeping clean cannot redeem my life

If it's real this time.

Beside reality,

Mixing present with past and past with fantasy,

Tangled in allusion/illusion,

I fixate on nothing but a cherished dream.

Hypnotize my untrained eyes.

I'm dying to sleep.

I'm dying to...

Lucid dreams are confusing my mind.

Keeping clean cannot redeem my life

If it's real this time.

Lucid dreams are consuming my mind.

Keeping clean cannot redeem my life

If it's real this time.

- afm

Abyssal Floor

Break from this once stable structure.
Earn the right to be sought out, not cast aside.
A tentative thought will carry you off,
So note to ignore the faintest cry.

Every letter is circled.
Every line rings a bell.
All the numbers are missing,
But when it's solved it will tell
Where the body lies,
And where your head resides.

You're biding all your time
In hoping to recall
The absence in your mind
That emptiness installed.
When was the merger signed?
Who made the curtain call?
Where are your thoughts confined?

We sat in eminence
While laughing at the cancer (at the cancer).
Here's to getting better.
We sat and reminisced
While knowing that the cancer (that the cancer)
Would erase us here and after.

Take the floor out from under.
Take my depleted mind.
See if some other home can be made out of stone
Aside from my heart and my eyes.

You're biding all your time
In hoping to recall
The absence in your mind
That emptiness installed.
When was the merger signed?
Who made the curtain call?
Where are your thoughts confined?

We sat in eminence
While laughing at the cancer (at the cancer).
Here's to getting better.
We sat and reminisced
While knowing that the cancer (that the cancer)
Would erase us here and after.

I've been fighting for too long.
I'm praying to prolong what impends around the bend.
We've had time, but now it's gone.
I'm praying to transcend, though I know you will descend.

- afm