The Carrion Shade Lyrics

Black sun, black moon
In shadows, entombed

Flame, gold, & rust
slowly coalesced
in the pale of the
last winter sunset

Resplendent arc of the twilight
glowed & burned
in gaps of the
snow-draped boughs

There in the umbra
of skeletal pines,
blood of the matriarch
married the ice

As silence was marred
by wolf & wind howl,
tendrils of red ivy
bloomed in the wounds

A nightside portal lined
with rows of trembling flame
Your sea of dusk so brilliantly alight

I contemplated upon
sere branches of the tree,
while the progenitor tore jaws through me

As shades of carrion birds drank deep
from a basin of mirrors…

Torchbearers dripped their blaze
into the cold void below

Black sun, black moon
In shadows, entombed