Sweeter than love and ecstasy The penance I pay for empty flesh Gasping and clawing at the moon Carving abysses in me Carving singular moments in forever Suspended and frozen screams of agony to monument the reconciliation of desperation and consciousness My compa** spins around and around Mocking my desperation for consciousness On this beach of flesh Steel strikes the sands I dream of a shore where red tides meet the firmament of the universe