The Chalice

THE CHALICE

Gaze upon the Chalice

Feel the thundering night

Embrace the hopeless challenge

Of ever feeling right

Pour the amber spirit

Fill the Chalice full

Draw the symbol near it

Seal the bargain whole

Speak the incantation

Raise the Chalice high

Await the integration

Of water, earth, and sky

Quaff the liquid fire

Deep into your throat

Feel the dark desire

Covering to coat

Sanctify the blessing

Prepare the sacrifice

Count up all the missing

Those who paid the price

Stare up at the ceiling

Filter out the ghosts

Magnify the feeling

Usurper and host

Calibrate the answer

Offered to the dead

Become the necromancer

Of fire, magic bled

Castigate the madness

Flow into the Earth

Quantify the sadness

Questioning your worth

Call upon the Chalice

Drink the answer in

Cut into the malice

Purify your sin

Grasp the silver Chalice

Melting into gold

Feel the crumbling palace

Never growing old

Slice into the muscle

Swallowing a groan

Slip the shadow’s rustle

Memory and bone

Celebrate the dawning

Circling the night

Call unto the morning

Consecrate the light

Sear the Chalice magic

Burning talisman

Embrace the graceful tragic

Follow where it’s been

Exalt the benediction

Arise the future nigh

The fire and the friction

Of water, earth, and sky

[ART - 
     Intro: "Chalice" photograph by Henri Le Secq (ca. 1850) 
     Outtro: "The Titan's Goblet" by Thomas Cole (1801–1848)]

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