Threshold Lyrics

Burdened is the path betwixt flesh and stone
Cold tendrils of the abyss latch unto fixations
And rancour becomes the seed of despair

Be warned
For in that sleep of death
Nightmares surely come to light
When plunged forever into that pit of unveiled trepidations
The only way through is a crawlway that winds
Around chasms of your own design
Now behold what lies beyond the threshold of our dreams
The antechamber of all fates to be - Veritas

There a host of fingers relentlessly entwines
Daedal weaves and patterns, congealing into time
One thread turns a man to a god
One slaughters a child in the womb
By the pinch of a single strand, empires crumble
In its coils I can see mankind's rise and fall
Its eyes now shift in manifold
Peering across the gloom, as if it knows
When entia trespasses upon
This strange sanctum verging on the realms of naught

As icy terror fills my heart
I dive down, and crawl into an underpass
Encroaching deep into the ruins
Of this grand unearthly vestibule

There is no way out
No respite from decay
My lot falls on declivous ways

Where the strands of fate are undefined, congruity unwinds
Inputs undetermined form a fractal path
Helices of shapeless time as far as none can see
Beyond this threshold yawns infinity

Can a singular being such as I surmount this vast divide?
Twists of never-ending shapes and thoughts to come
Contemplating finitude at the brink of defeat
I fail to notice, eyes have been watching me

As I now meet its gaze
As the Weaver turns my way

"I seek not thine harm
But my words do heed
Beings lost in time
Lie dormant in the weft of the weave"

Slowly, one of many hands lifts my thread to reveal
A tracing in the fractal, and as I observe, it speaks

"Do not tread with hesitance upon the wailing path
Spirits unrelenting hide within the dark
On the bleakest of thy days, quiver not, but stand tall
Life gave thee burdens - thou hast carried them all"

"In severance lies beauty, bittersweet as it may be
Once a journ is over, value accrues indeed
Sifting through the memories, both painful and serene
Thou wilt discover, they've become a part of thee"

"In the great beyond
Past sterile fields
There one may find serendipity
Beware the beast who resembles thee
All that Become must return to the Sea"