Reliquary

Led through torchlit silent lanes
Crimson portents rubricae
Past the doorway three sided
Formed

Led through torchlit silent lanes
Crimson portents rubricae
Past the doorway three sided
Formed

Tattooed priesthood
Faceless cowled
Branded

Enter chambers heathen warmed
Floors engraved with ritual scorn
Rows of zealots eight sided
Formed

Enter chambers heathen warmed
Floors engraved with ritual scorn
Rows of zealots eight sided
Formed

Heathens

Tattooed priesthood
Faceless cowled
Impure vermin
Blasphemy

Apostates gather
Communion
A foetid assembly
Nauseous faith

Judged guilty
Drawn and quartered
Left to rot

Godkin descent
Bless, bless these pale hands

Sweet penitent
Intone thine chants
Bless these pale hands

Godkin descent
Bless, bless these pale hands

Sweet penitent
Intone thine chants
Bless these pale hands

Grief-stricken heirs
Martyred lineage

Thirteen amphorae line the moor before me
Sublime, in clay and violet thread
Arranged in patterns of remembrance
Cracked open
Listen to these intertwined bones
Whisper a martyred lineage

Grief-stricken heirs
Martyred lineage
Grief-stricken heirs