Waking in a sea of flesh and gore
Cycled through this horror again
Obscured memories linger in my mind
Somehow I know I’ve suffered this before

Her eyes gaze upon me, uneasy and afraid
Was I a monster or something best forgotten
I’d wage a war and kill for her
But why do I feel this way?

The worlds birth us all
We birth all the worlds
Cogs and gears; sinew, bone and flesh
Recycled and abused in unending trial

Failure deemed I am tossed to the maw
I watch her eyes swallowed by the dark
Left to wallow in cadaverous waves
Where towering shadows chew on the dead

From the bowels of a star-like womb
I climb through the meat and bone
I’ve lead myself this way before
The shadow of myself calls

The world unfurls around me, layers and layers
I peel back the skin and swim in the veins
The deeper I dive, it reveals itself
Revealing myself inside—revealing myself

The worlds birth us all
We birth all the worlds
Cogs and gears; sinew, bone and flesh
Recycled and abused in unending trial

Am I afraid to remember
Afraid of what I am
My memories filtered
Through these great organs

The world howls
I understand the pain

I ascend breaking through bone
Tasting the blood as it showers my face
Gnawing on the muscle, I climb
I remember what I am

Betrayed and killed a thousand times
Her eyes still enrapture me
But at the bridge of our worlds
We can only be two lords among the stars