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City of the Immortals

from Mountains Crave by Mountains Crave

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4. City of the Immortals

I, servant of Diocletian
Heard from a dying man
Of a city built by a river
Which makes men immortal

I wandered day and night, as my body burned with thirst
I looked on blackened sands and beheld the fevered moon

I ventured forth to burning lands
Dwelling of the serpent eaters
Leading my men into whited death
Garamants and cursed augyls
Claimed many with magic and madness
Until I stood alone as one

Inverted staircases leer vexatious in the murk
Standing after Homer had forgotten his famed work
Ancient cenotaph to life's mocking futility
Nothing left but reflection throughout eternity

Gazing as the heavens turn
In transcendent reverie
Subvert the body's mastery
Solid flesh to burn

Rain and tears traverse fissures
Gazing past both time and space
A wizened and decrepit face
Carved by untold years

Infinity is unfurled
I am god, I am hero
And I am philosopher
I am demon, I am world

This palace is
A fabrication of the gods
The gods who built it have died
The gods who built it were mad

Architecture sordid and misleading galleries
Claustrophobic nightmare wandering stone arteries
Antediluvian antiquity manifest
Atrociously interminable, Complexly senseless

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from Mountains Crave, released December 12, 2014

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