Hosannas in Extremis   Invading tempestuous skies   When Inanna rose, bringing angels repose   And Narcissus' fate as their prize   Blinded by Diana's mirror   Wherein coffined truth struggles, forlorn   And covetous stars out their eyes to deceive   The horrors performed on Her shores   As jewelled Ishtar, in darker Aeons   Trespassed Ereshkigal's grasp   Her ravening twin, wreathed in whispers and wind   Now inspires Catharsis to dance   Through the weave of white vaults   Where the shadows revolt   At the incest of spiritual love   Castrata choirs, bereft of such lusts   Spatter virginal breasts with their blood      The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelwe   (Thirst-ridden) Wolves serenade a moon   Who seems no mistress of Herself   And heavens pour forth vast casualties   Thy host given up for me   Thou which wert once and then ceased to be   Art now ensconced to chapters   Of a lengthening tragedy      Whilst we scream free      Deep forests impale the sinister mist   Their sorcery taught to the clouds   Who muster like mountains, a fountainous wish   To vex the sweet dead from silk odious shrouds      Storm-woken sisters of Judas unfurl   As Psyche to Sapphic lament   Wrapt in thy tresses and taloned caresses   Whisper me secrets beheld beyond Death      "Desires   I was loath to lose   To the virgin-bloodied priests   Whose lord fantasied on Magdalene   And sought to savour Her as beast      Her aching sex   A rose undone   As mine in tears and spasms wrung"      Ebon Nemesis, slain Jericho's stone   Has built thee a marbled stair   By candlelight to Eden and a Serpentine throne   Where ravens rape the tenanting angels there      Hurry, else Death may spy us here   And quicken the pulse of dawn   Embering flames writhe to life again   The starry brow threshed with poisonous thorn      Huntress, draw back the silvered bow   Thy dogs set upon the manger   The enemy in throes...      Whilst drifting fogs devour   All Hallows witching hour   On this long, dark seance for the soul      Through malevolent Scylla, Charybdis graves   Our conquesting spirits pour forth, unassuaged   Occultnesses watch us and Seraph, afraid   Like fireflies plunge to Her maw, midst crashing black waves      "Remember with pride what thou art   Lest we forget in awe of our terrible past"      When Dark royalties drank of despair   Idols hewed down 'neath a desert god's stare   In thrall to revenges sworn there   What dreams could we father, when farther we fell   To nightmare... ?      "Well versed in misery   We have lain naked in darkest ravines   Now the sun has set in slumber. We delight   Like serpents in arousal   Coiled to strike at the light"      Now abyssed Lucifers master the earth   Uncloister jaded harlots once served   Enthralled by cruel raptures, rehearsed   Kiss slumbered beauty and weapon our thousand year curse      The laughter of Khaos   Gatekeepers flee the onslaught      A World enslaved to flame   Bondage in Phallustine   Pleasure temples for my bride   Nubian grace swiftly seize   Thieves blood-divine   Empires thrive on sacrifice