Hero of the Underworld

HAIL! HAIL!

All hail
The Hero of the Underworld

This is a journey
One of a thousand
Trials and tribulations
It begins
The second I step my foot
Into this same river
For the third time

All hail
The Hero of the Underworld

This is a journey
One of a thousand
Witch trials and tributes to sultan
My unexamined double-life
A story cut into these
Short and mandatory sentences
Single-self servings
Of fragments the size
Of my over-chemically simulated
Imagination in a fugitive state

All hail
The Hero of the Underworld

This is a journey
One where
Heaven is empty
And all the Devils are here

Where my rearview
Of rock bottom
May be closer
Than it disappears to be
But I cannot
Withdraw my addictions
From the sore sights
At the top of this mountain
Where my old sins
Condescend to new heights
Of unconditional
Miracle drug abuse
Substituting my lack of control
Over anything of substance
With shadows that measure
The length of a noose

O me of little fate
In my vain attempts
To cope with the defense
Mechansims
Of a pseudo-masochist

The once and future sting
In my cautionary tales
Of stranger things
Conspiracies in theory
Deathbed confessions in practice

A leper cannot change his sores
He pours the salt of his worth
Into the wounds of his scorched earth

Woe to the Tree of Life
All that withers is hope
In this garden of stone
A murder of siren song birds
Of prey in my paradise
Poised to strike
At the forbidden roots
Of the HEIR ABHORRENT
To this Tomb of Unknown Origins

With the pride of a Daniel
That has come to trust
In the judgment
Of that nest of vipers
In my Liar's Den
I am to be counted
Among the number of the sheep
That flock, rushing in
To where my
Demons fear to tread
And to the rescue
Of angels in distress

All hail
The Hero of the Underworld
When Heaven is empty
And all the Devils are here