A Tribute To The Raven Star 21. 07. 05

Last night the hazy heaven called me
I heard the distant tocsins' clash
Its splendid hopelessness enthralled me
And let my spirit leave the flesh

What could I find out in the bleakness
Amid the boundless summer sky?
I felt some kind of incompleteness
Like my tired soul is high and dry

My thoughts are written on the paper
But my emotions are concealed
Below me flows the curling vapour
It veils the wishes unfulfilled

And I don't need to feign or palter
To say: "I'm tired to be alone..."
But none will ever really alter
This cold existence in my own

And now I sense an inanition -
Too many years have passed in vain
What was my life? A nameless mission
Which cursed the foes and mourned the slain...

I gave my credence to the triple
Untainted essence of our Lord
But where are my trustworthy people?
They've yielded to the devil's fraud

There's no more role for me to render
My ghost is melting in the mist
And though the Dark is soft and tender,
The Dream's forever unreleased

...The moon is rising and its nearness
Evokes the long-forgotten pain
But do I grieve? My cry is tearless
I face my weird and don't complain

And in the gloom is my emplacement
Among the shadows so serene
My only way is the effacement
Of all that kills me from within

But as the bringer of damnation
I shan't obtain the blissful peace
Because of my obliteration
The wails of woe inside won't cease

The space around me just will lower
When I'll invoke the fallen ones
And o'er the wasteland stretching nowhere
We'll raise a thousand pitch-black suns

Their might will take our grief elsewhither
Transforming us to what we are
And then we'll carry through the ether
A tribute to the raven star

'Twill lay on us its dreadful power
To fill our hearts with wrath and rage
The guns will strike once from the tower
And our steel legions shall engage

The priests of lies will wear the weepers -
Their world is doomed to lose this fight
And on its grave the hoary keepers
Will hold their solemn farewell rite