III: Tabula Rasa or Death and the Seven Pillars

To turn back at the threshold of salvation To erase ones name from the book of life To delve deep into the heart of the darkness For a truth one could never find I want nothing And in return give all Until all is nothing And nothing all I know that to act is pointless And pointlessness holy I cast grain in unclean ground And see potential drowned I see you I feel you I hear you I smell you I taste you You are as clear As crystal You are as dark As blood You are as beautiful As a blazing flame You are as unforgiving As frozen ground Your are as fleeting As a gust of wind I am carried forth By a great wind A powerful tug At the strings of my heart That urges me onward Through the listless times And shields me from its foetid grime Wind blowing, moon glowing, the owl goes by I cradle this fear deep within my heart I gaze upon the forests of the great divide And ask myself: “Am I ready now, to depart?” But for all its blessing and all its gifts The unrelenting waves of the world set me adrift And when at night the spirits are roiling through the sky I wish for wings so I could join their lawless ride But unseen hands grasp toward my throat I feel their horrid warmth as the sun does rise to gloat Defiant I remain and (even though) I lost all that I had I greet the dawn with the hammer of the dead For ever present is the song of my salvation And my words were never meant for you to hum And even though my voice is choked with Joy My song is a call for Grief to come To die is to learn a wisdom shiny A wealth of ruby revelation That the well of endless desperation Still hides, in deep blue glow All that was ever ours to know And so we set forth on an aimless path The horizon, a whore, pregnant with repudiation We carry on in indignant illumination Ever onward, with blood-stained skin Til the inception of the End’s Begin The fortitude of the anti-current Is in the blood we bleed To share in your pain Oh thou perfected nameless flame We call thee by thy first given name Vicious love so hungry and filled with ire My god is a consuming fire, a jealous God The fragrance of tomorrow And tomorrow and tomorrow Incremental in our purpose Toward nothing we are aiming We are slipping, sliding, drowning and fighting On a desperate and holy road We shatter the boundaries before us Brothers Sisters In the solitude of god And the waters of nothingness A constant reminder That we Are Nowhere

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Restless child, fitful sleep (ever) in the throes of your heart’s wildest dreams Don’t bow, don’t turn around, don’t ever look back (but) prepare now your blade for the night’s sweet hunt Reckon with your inner fears, bury deep the tears, crying is for later And later is for sleeping Insomnia’s twisted child, wakeful till the dawn Ever trembles the hand of the one who carries God Restless child, fitful sleep Crawl into your sorrow Ah, sorrow Puncture your eyes Cut off your ears Pull out your hair And become once more yourself In the night’s hungry dark

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

What am I if not a vessel? A voice to speak Hands to grasp And feet to wander Unto the void surrender (And) to set a watch, a tower and a fool A new clear mind to school If not with your words, then why so loudly call? If not within your palm, then where so deeply to fall? If not your motion and solemn dance Inspire this journey Then why journey? Why, at all? I bleed from cuts to the heart Cringe from stabs to the brain My soul is a model of your art It is Enveloped in beautiful pain You are doubt and therewith separation I am the servant wandering from station to station You are the wine in my water, the bread in my stone You are the salt in my wounds, the flute in my bone Greatness Power Glory Redshift Black hole Whiteout

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

I can feel the hot air about my skin Your breath, liquid steel, suffused with sin I drown in the noxious, bilious, secretions of your love Lungs filled with the feathers of a black dove Oh you greatest of lovers No iron shirt will avail you tonight The Wheel of Suffering It spins and spins Rats leading, piper follows And from deep within the weeping cunt Life is forever shunned Oh you greatest of lovers No iron shirt will avail you tonight For molten rock follows our stride We ride, yes, we ride! I light your fire I destroy your heaven I recreate your world I now add the 1 to form the 11 Small steps at first But ever faster go the feet that move the burning boy He is pacing through a thousand dreams And nothing may break his stride And dreams begin to form From beyond a shape can be seen A nightly, stark, gaunt figure Hovers among the stars that mock us Even as we dream to attain their shine

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

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I rip through the chains of Mars Astride his mare and roan (as) war bellows blazing free That rock That vicar And that flower Today I'll put them to sleep Your wings have risen up against my foes And Your winds blow into my sail And set me upon this path of burning thorns That bends as the Devil's tail Open heart Closed eyes Trembling hands tear apart the chain What saint's decree Can hold me back Now that Your name is known to me? "for Your chants to reverb on the walls of my mind Their truth diligently unfurled For the Living Death in grotesque glory to walk From my dreams into the world" A bony hand Upon my shoulder Leads me from day into night And from the void Into the air I follow you sleepily From the air To the sea I follow you uncertainly From the sea To the earth I follow you determinately Through the earth Into the fire I follow you confidently From the fire Into the void I follow you eternally Within the godhead Within the abyss And from on high I reach down into the world I am thrust Through the air Particle swarm Gaining speed Friction builds I am perceived I go where gravity wills The sky it yields Before my fall An empty husk I am fulfilled And filled with rain A falling moon I neither wax nor wane As fiery birds Crumble and die In the wake of wings Scorching aether I come along I land in salt (to be) neither psalm nor song At grotesque speed I break the glass I am moved through Soul torn apart Blackthorn wreath Lungs fill with brine As I slowly slip beneath A deep blue glow Of endless chance Sends up its hands Grasping claws Tendrils bore Into my skin (and) replace what was before I am reassembled Through witching love Sirens call And pass me by My ears burst With the force of Death That stills my endless thirst It seems as though The open sea Endless void Pregnant with rage Impedes my birth Forever lost I set my nails into earth As I writhe Over scaly stone Coral of blood Exquisite pain There's not a sound Awake I dream That I'm absorbed in ground I become aware Of intense force Choking my lungs Halting my pulse Drowning in mire I pass, like night From soil into fire I grasp and reach For nothingness A final death So loved not mourned A final test A break of laws At His enduring behest Chaotic swirl Of ravenous flame Nuclear decay Dead atom-sphere Unleash hell And from this point Time has nothing to tell Among melting stone My skin retreats Magnesium bites White storm of teeth Into my soul Carbon to ash I am swallowed hole I fall into The spaceless space The timeless time The endless end Neither here nor there Above or below Into the night I go

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

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