Terminus Est -

The shadow hovers o’er us, old and long

Its power fuligin and vast

Tradition slithers 'round us

Like serpent’s coils it’s bound us

Bound us to the shadow of the torturer’s mask

An ancient place the one I have and hold

An ancient lesson I do learn

Our job to slay the people

Our place to do the evil

«Pity the poor prisoners, may the torturers burn!»

We must not sway beneath our heinous work;

Compassion is the greatest crime

I take one life in kindness

They damn me for my blindness

And I’ll bear that stigma 'till the end of my time

Her memories haunt me when I’m most alone;

No longer can I see the right

Unwilling penance claws me

Conciliation draws me

Into my grim future, into Urth’s blackest night

The sword of this sad lictor of uncounted deaths can tell

Her blade marks the division between living death and Hell

So as I journey toward a hated post

Despair is in her finest hour

Upon God’s path must I tread

My fate to make and raise dead

Wielding like a sword an old and Urth-saving power

If I but knew the use of what I’ve learned

Some hope might override my strife

Can death be so appalling?

Humanity is calling

Me to be their Savior at the risk of my life

While I must sow the Death from which a new sun must rise