Displaying a reverence For knowledge Unalloyed and flagrant Parading devotionless To the erudite Assembled in the spirit of forgery Zealot and partisan Of the ailings of discipline Countless victims pierced By the daggers of mimicry ♪ Seeking the light of direction Offered as a pledge to certainty Severing as a ritual The searching hand Relinquish and malign the tactile Wounds robed, vulgar In the ornaments of aspect Rushing headlong to the surface ♪ Suspended in a new inertia A cloak to preclude acceptance Flailing unforgiven Shielded by myth articulate ♪ Take flight Such fictions will not avail Acknowledge them before you All waning to mineral Aureate dissent In the shackles of significance Inviolate cruelty To the mortal structure Endorsing affliction Skull splintering like dull glass A discarded mosaic