Heir of the Wounds

from Return to Gehenna by The Maledict

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The deadened husk of a man left broken. Blood rendered cold, imparted grief and dogma.
What lessons did you leave unspoken? What wisdom remains within that mind?

Only one course of action remains with you... the prodigal son, ascending to claim his prize. To consume all this which has spawned you. The scalpel shining in the cold light.

Incision across the chest, reveal discrete viscera. In my twisted fascination, I'll discover your secrets...

Peeling back the layers, stripping the flesh from bone, the pendulous acres of skin curling to form my robe. The eyes that gazed upon me, beholding my first moments, now resting in my hand, the grave that beckons you home. The ruby pooling in the white. An incredible vision. Entrails coiled around my arms, glory of the dissection...

Preachings of evil, lessons of the vile. Denouncing the holy as wisps of fiction. Pride attracting the whispers of ill content, soul sentenced to eternal putrefaction. A slave to this primal existence. Reaching out of life, the quickening. Into the void, we are the waves. Scales of dimensional skin, now shining on.

The blood and oil that mix. I am your host, you are the ether. As I feast upon your mottled flesh,
and exist now forever...

Frozen, his veins. Slow, final death. In shadows of hope lost. Pure blasphemous vanity.

Below ground eternally, always watching. Eyes once more to meet, staring through nothingness. The wheel will turn again as the spawn are feeding. Ancient ritual continues, abhorrent and vapid.

All initiative now suppressed. The memories slowly digesting. Gently I now ascend to rest, upon the precipice of sanity...

Drink deep of the waters pure. Fill up with the pain I've saved. I now pass on these wounds, to which they are my heirs. Inherited anathema, rising up now from warm soil. Children repeat my questions, the throat emptying into the void...

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from Return to Gehenna, released November 5, 2019

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The Maledict Mildura, Australia

Pron. "Mal-eh-dict".

Ian McLean
Karl Freitag
Stuart McCarthy
Steve Pay

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