For an instant, I hesitated
As you cowered beneath me
My limbs coiled for violence, but
Some weakness pleaded: mercy, mercy
But the blow fell
The wound opened
My path was chosen
Forever
The blow fell
The rift rent wide
No forgiveness
No rapprochement, never
In a secret cathedral given to cruelty
I enshrine the livid memory
Of your face twisted in disbelief
Of your form wracked with agony
The blow fell
The bones shattered
My malice sang
With pleasure
The blow fell
The light went out
No remorse
No redemption, never
The leech called shame set upon me
Leapt from your wreck to my flesh
But it no more feasts upon me
For I seized up its body
And ground it into the dust
A foreboding black-doom metal dirge, meditating on a dark world caked in ash, resulting from all the Earth’s nuclear arsenal detonating at once. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jun 14, 2018