Where Shadows Have Teeth - Terra Tenebrosa

In the rift between throats exposed and gnarling teeth

Between a trembling hand and the ashen skin of the stillborn

In a nest of rot and mold and crumbling matter

I reside where dreams come to die

Come where shadows have teeth

And no wounds are healing

Come where there is no peace

Here we are always bleeding

Chasms and cavities

Sharp blades and bitter weight

Sustains this shell

This monument to everything vile and ugly and dead

Come where sorrow and fear has hold

No light transgressing

Come where the air is stale and black

Learn how to breathe it

Grave processions through room after room after room

Through nuances of black in a pitch black hole

It’s inside these walls

It sticks to the floor and it pulls you down

It’s filthy rags over mouth and nose and hands around your throat

It’s inside me and with the strength of trees winding their roots deep into the

ground

It’s connecting to a place within you

Come where shadows have teeth

Come where there is no peace

Come where sorrow and fear has hold

No light transgressing

Come where the air is stale and black

And learn how to breathe it