'Neath - Shell

Standing at the bow
Under pristine night skies
Boat makes for the shore
Beyond the tears and the cries

Wet grass underfoot
The ice kiss between bare toes
Cold, uneathly calm
Serenity only those in passing know

'neath the mountain, 'neath the forest and the streams
In the deep, molten currents gag my screams
I am whole, though broken body one will find
I will not be heard
Audience denied to my kind

Seek your shelter
Violence shocks the long surviving halls
Bail the sickness
From the bilge of your worthless core
Entombed, imprisoned
As I bring the catacomb down on you
Meet me in battle
To eat your shell I've suffered aeons true

Eat, taste, lust, loathe, seek, stalk,
Beg, hound, chase, reap,
Act, push, break