Betrayer's Archetype

from Of Origin, Conflict, and Recurrence by Shroud Of Despondency

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Too severe for the multitude
The plurality and dualism evades their time
Their smiles, their shells, their divine husks
Where the mountain bound evade their life
With their height, their sagacity, their downward glare
Their forward gaze into future history
In praise of the abyss that destroys inward misery
Forever defeating and rebirthing a nemesis
His epoch burned by the fires of servitude
New betrayer fights the flame
Moments of peace passed, vengeance accrued
Not content to be a slave
Alien provenance, crux of immortal feuds
Demands those who betray
Such height, such sagacity, such downward glares
Unto the mass, unto the blindly possessed
From those free of the essence, free from deceit
Defeating and rebirthing the spiritual nemesis
His epoch burned by the fires of servitude
New betrayer fights the flame
Moments of peace passed, vengeance accrued
Not content to be a slave
Alien provenance, crux of immortal feuds
Demands those who betray
Those who abandon the promises of faith
Who deny the clean slate state born of a knave
Where nature and order tranquilly pervade
Where all are always prey but never slaves
Biting hands that feed the mouth the poison that weakens the body
Stabbing backs of the hands that birth eras of thralls deemed godly
For future blood, forthcoming flesh, inevitable means and subsequent ends
It began amongst the meteors before the dawn of man
With a symbiont incongruous with the species of the land
When uninvaded they stood defiant, when weakened they all remain
Living underneath great heights and building up their strength
Cycling infinitely but gaining the pride of collective experience
Can the untainted ever rise to keep their heights?

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from Of Origin, Conflict, and Recurrence, released September 4, 2016

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Shroud of Despondency was formed by Rory Heikkila in the late 1990's.

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