Death, the Great Adventure

Sometimes red curtains fall
 Before the act has headed for the wings
 As on that night, disaster crawled out from the stalls
 Suddenly the dark, the thickest Stygian dark
 Pressing on all sides with vertigo
 Running from the quickest in the sickest abyss
 My spirit's lifted by an angel of woe
 A dredged up dreadful past
 Drags discordant thoughts my way
 Unforgiven and driven to despair
 I sense the mordant wraith Azazel
 Standing there
 Now the vision simmers
 I spy a distant gleam
 Racing ever closer
 Through this persistent dream
 And by its welcome glimmer
 Writhing into sight
 The brutish groping nightmares
 That hide beside the light
 Then a roar
 And a voice like a pride of lions
 Thunders from the maw
 In a blackened mass
 The creatures flee
 Screaming bloody murder as
 A shining gateway opens for me
 Death, the great adventure
 At the peril of my soul
 I welcome death, the great avenger
 Spared this awful realm
 Where those who stalk the living haunt the murk
 Untethered pleasures keep them tied to flawed
 Humana, ahh!
 I'm floating upward still, to where the tunnel mouth reveals
 Two Manticores that ward an ebon door
 I muster that resolve, as the luminance dissolves
 And I am thrust headlong before their venomous jaws
 I am in darkness again
 But here accursedness is vastly deeper
 Unforgiven and given to torment
 I am nothing
 Grotesque, grotesque, bereft of judgement
 This abyss, a voice
 Where stripped of all but self
 One must wish to be destroyed
 To pass on somewhere else
 Beyond this pit of wicked shouts
 Madness and fallacies
 Aeons I failed to rail my doubts
 Before fear left, love saving me
 Then a roar
 And a voice like the clash of Titans
 Thunders from the maw
 In a seething mass
 The horrors flee
 Screaming bloody murder as
 A shrouded sky opens immensely
 Listen!
 What Eden shall arise
 Abundant from the cliffs that stunt Hell's redundant cries?
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 A view of breathtaking beauty
 Unveils, as the sun disperses
 Perversities
 Death, death the great adventure
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 For the glory of my soul
 I welcome death, the great avenger
 Ahh! The damaged man revives
 With dawning truth, this morning suits
 The world I left abruptly
 In exaltation, I find myself alive
 Near-death to steer a life long-led corruptly
 The sweet silver chord that keeps me moored
 I know that heaven sent her
 From the cold to hold her face again
 I rose from death, the great adventure