In Dialogue with Death

What else will you see, by gazing into
 The reflection of your own countenance
 On the water's surface,
 Than a thousand empty eyes from
 A thousand empty faces
 Of a thousand empty selfs [sic], mirroring
 A thousand empty lifes [sic]?
 The harmonic state is not achieved
 Through the profane illusion of
 Capitulation, striking exceedingly the
 Deepest minds whilst they are bent
 This isolation of the spirit,
 This paralysation of the flesh
 Are only initials, unravelling at last
 The circle of death
 I saw this falling star
 Lamb of faith under reason's will
 I bind this sacrifice to the burning tree
 And let it shine
 I am the star that guides your way
 Your shrine, your temple
 Wine and bread
 As opposed to him who leads astray
 For your mind was closed,
 Your heart was dead
 Tell me, if Satan's breath creates the
 Storms that hurl your salt water up to
 The clouds
 This you must tell me, because I would
 Rejoice at knowing hell
 So close to man
 (spirit is not yet abandoned)
 Embrace me now
 Drown in darkness
 Receive me now
 Accept this guiding light
 A voice to wake the truth of silence
 Destroying forlorn hope
 To renew what's hidden
 Beneath the ruins
 I cast the serpent's spell
 On those who crawl unwillingly
 Through forsaken wastes and dirty soil
 Of a mind unclear
 I saw how eagles fell
 Stunned, from the topmost clouds
 Of heaven
 Tumbling over one another
 In raging fear
 Abjure these crumbling halls
 Rebuild his rotten temple
 Under the sun of eyes
 To receive this gift with open arms
 Lest you don't fail to pass
 Receive the sign of death
 With purest dignity
 Infinity beyond the walls of life
 (fluctus feri maris despumantes suas
 Confusiones sidera errantia quibus
 Procella tenebrarum in aeternum
 Servata est)
 Shadows emerging from the deep
 In silence
 Ascending from oceans
 Shallow words are doomed to crumble
 As the truth is bared
 To be received through pain
 And anguish
 By the ones who dare to see
 Never again shall you crumble
 At the nameless void
 But kiss the deepest darkness
 And embrace the holy flames
 Abjure these crumbling halls
 Rebuild his rotten temple
 Under the sun of eyes
 To receive this gift with open arms
 Lest you don't fail to pass
 Receive the sign of death
 With purest dignity
 Infinity beyond the walls of life
 As you sink deeper and deeper
 Into this chimerical dark
 A mind is burning down
 Heralding thy utmost
 Purifying rebirth