Stars My Destination

It's too late for redemption
Destitute of grace and favour
Earth-stricken and abandoned
Lying in the bed you've made

The folly was always hope
Delaying gratitude for nowhere land
The crowning achievement of our existence
A monument to ignorance

Precious soul, so weak and so fragile
You need a master, it's never enough

Precious soul, so cryptic and essential
Praying to master, it's never enough

Precious soul, righteous and courageous
Slaughter for master, it's never enough

Existence wasted
Planet violated
Excuse debasing
Praying for the answers
Betrayed by your conceit

Skulls crushed
Instinctual distrust
A violent lust

In devotion you can't see
The woods for the trees

And though time may shelter
The guilt and the fallacy
There is nothing that's weaker
Than the wish for immortality

A sickened life
Born from a weakened mind
Sweeps across the dust and
Ruin that it leaves behind

When all is said and done
And ashes stain you black
Head craned skyward to see
That only death stares back

Only death stares back