Deception Duplicitous imposters of humankind Deception By fragmented beings Born of otherworldly influence Melded by traumatic knowledge of the clandestine Fractured... Duplicity of the psyche It seems that we see A partial reassembly Of static filtered through delicate biocircuitry In questioning everything, certainty Confrontation; collapse of belief, of reality Both denial and embrace of a numinous dimension Augment what is seen But the strongest desires distort A primitive shield from calamity Vulnerable apertures Fleshy, naive Enabling the distortion of photons; An exploitation of the limbic and visual systems An illusion to placate and pacify the mind Enabling an entire concurrent universe within our own In which we always nearly exist but that two eyes cannot truly see Stifling the urge to exhume obscured truths Punishment for those who choose to look beneath layers Denouncement, isolation, exile Come to those who have, glimpses of the chasm, sensed Vulnerable are the sewn seeds of epigenetic inheritance A ripple from the edge of the chasm emerges Peek and your brethren are turned against you Repugnant outcast, exterminated From the inside Ritual of Deception Fragmented beings Born From otherworldly influence Fractured... Bring them to us to devour Draw them to the chasm To feed to the ether Isolation and exile Come to those who have, visions of the chasm, sensed Vulnerable are the sewn seeds of epigenetic inheritance Isolation and exile Come to those who have, visions of the chasm, sensed Isolation and exile awaits Deception Duplicitous imposters of humankind Deception By fragmented beings Born of otherworldly influence Melded by knowledge of the clandestine Fractured duplicity of the psyche Undulations from the chasm call to darkness found within Intrusive interception from unseen dimension Frequencies attempt to gain control from within Become well-acquainted [with] cognitive dissonance Enticed by dark knowledge, unyielding hunger of the forbidden