Cast into Exile - Equipoise

Oh, this fate was an unforeseen calamity

Dethroned by fleshborn treachery

From a gaping hole in my chest — emissaries outstretch

Pull me back to the void

Back to my genesis

Shrouded silhouettes reach forth, penumbra tearing me particle from particle

Beckoned by the ageless entity to palaver — the failure of my deeds

Why, God, why would you refuse to become one with me

Back to the void

Back to the Truth

Cast into exile

Many names have I — the One, the All, the Truth

They call me God, the World, the Universe, and Atom

For this eve I’ve summoned thee — you who so desperately wanted the all

The plot you sought — the onslaught

Defeated by humanoid squall

Why was my pursuit of the arcane a taboo

I merely sought to know the all to attain the Truth

Dwarf you have not grown beyond your days in the flask

Merely expelled desires and acquired a flesh mask

The power in which you possess was stolen from those you detest

All of that so-called knowledge, such arrogance must be repressed

For those who leave me besotted a special hell there is allotted

A fate truly tailored for your sins — symbolic retribution

Oh, you who have failed to see enlightenment

Outdone by fleshborn quintessence

Behold your barren portal of Truth — bleak with rancor

Once your genesis, now your terminus

Tell me what it was that I was supposed to do

Before I’m bound once more, I’m begging for the Truth

Dwarf you have not grown beyond your days in the flask

Merely expelled desires and acquired a flesh mask

The door to your destiny is open wide

Do you dare to take a look inside

Listen closely for the words on my breath sentence you to a fate worse than

death

You who sought to have it all, condemned to a fate infinitesimal

Banished is your free will, now you shall be a nameless iota that dwells within

me

Dwarf you have not grown beyond your days in the flask

Merely expelled desires and acquired a flesh mask

Listen closely for the words on my breath sentence you to a fate worse than

death

You who sought to have it all, condemned to a fate infinitesimal

Banished is your free will, now you shall be a nameless iota that dwells within

me