Absent from Kenoma by SONS OF A WANTED MAN

Cast your light upon me, child of virtue.
Lead, lead me towards the garden of eternal sin.
Take me back to the fall of man.
Heart of darkness.
Blindfolded, carrying a torch in a maze of moral twilight.
Feed me, teach me the ways of the invisible realm.
False gods are stretching across the sky.
But snakes like us, we are sentenced to this.
This white fog inferno.
I sense a violent conspiracy around me and within me.
I’m a pilgrim’s shadow wandering through the afterlife.
Destroy me, destroy me, redeem my soul.
Sterile wastelands as far as the eye can see.
This king must die for spring to come.

We are crossing rivers towards death’s other kingdom.
Heaven nor hell would have let us past its gates.
The wilderness had whispered its deepest secrets to me.
But it only echoed loudly within my hollow chest.
Lost souls lift your veil.
Your egos burn with greed and indifference.
We live as we dream.
We’re all alone.

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