darkness and death what are your secret enchantments where lies the beauty of your oppression for i am entranced what innocence could have such splendour no naked beauty nor a warm smile but the power to leave stars and worlds in lifeless silence sublime is the hand of no pity that wields a merciless death to judge not by deeds but by the approval of a god victorious heart of deceit shaped in red beauty yet carved in black stone killing not to win but to ensure a loss mendaciously poundering through death darkness and death your blessed art lives through me through entranced submission by the love of god 