Funeral for a Continent

Under the world
 In timeless frost and fire cocooned
 Cloaked in winged death
 A vast tectonic moon
 Ten million years,
 Scorching rock and flesh, descend,
 Howl their epitaph
 A funeral for a continent
 Within the naked bones of earth
 Crushed in mummified embrace
 Where stony fangs claw into space
 A slow cold heart awaits rebirth
 Rumbling in his grave
 Pounding in the deep
 Putrid fuming Erebus
 Stirs in his sleep
 And from the East
 The storm's atrocious blades
 Bring heaven's wrath,
 Skewer and cascade
 Upon the brave
 Desperately they creep
 Ride the tail of the buried Beast
 Above the skeleton of god
 In endless midnight, spectres dance
 Where land and sky in endless trance
 Dream in the dark of living blood
 Lie in wait
 Bide their time
 Craving flesh
 Arise
 Man against rock
 Heart against ice
 With devil's tongues the mountain calls
 Bodes blinded glory
 To the worm that crawls
 Taunts mortality
 Eyeless whiteness
 Soundless
 With devil's tongues the mountain calls
 A summons for the damned
 Shades of Azrael
 With devil's jaws the mountain mauls
 Yawning chasms, ghostly waters
 Falling through a maze of blue
 A quick demise for him who falters
 Worlds born anew for him who knew
 That underneath this silent death
 A frozen chthonic empire lies
 In crystal pressure draws cold breath
 Awaking slowly beneath the ice
 And from the summit
 The other side reveals no drop
 But 24 million billion tons
 Of living, shifting tombstone
 For a forgotten world
 To elevate
 Our vermin fate
 In the abyss
 We take the bait
 Defy the weight
 Of earth and sky
 Rejoice to die
 For one brief kiss
 Deep in the bowels of the earth
 Magma heaves towards the void
 Unseen thaw feeds mangled rock
 And within it, secret life