Black Rite

Pharaoh had a brother, twin to the root

Two of them there doted on

Only one head fits the crown

Two side by side indistinguishable 

Undecipherable as an hieroglyph

Equal beloved, taught noble ways and bred for rule

Memphian atrocities a black rite

A ceremony unbecoming

Becoming Pharaoh

Child made catamite, how to destroy angels

Bones pulverized undercudgel 

Skin a map of tortures

Purple as the hanged man

Dizzying the depths, stygian demesne

Ideasphere, a realm of torturous innovations

Teeth the avalanche of this tumult

Tumbling like pearls off a torn lace

Steel hardens

Serpents coiled at the brow rouse

One of death, one of living, of the same blood

Pharaonic birth deemed by demise 

Trauma lends more to kingship than lineage or force of Will

Psychic intuitions and supranatural logics unlocked through ritual killing 

Forged of utmost clammy fear strange adrenal lockpicks

Side by side in bedlam, racked by their age

Aeons, cruel and strange 

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