Egyptian Hymn

Drawn out from within and expelled with hatred
Fetid breath chokes and binds my lungs.
She waits, Blind Isis as I crawl from the sand,
I feel ancient, torn from someone elses memory not my own.
The fire laden rocks breathe out their heat and in this fire I die.
I walk twist-footed on glass and brick, I remember the pain.
Behold the cold walls running wet stealing the light from Osiris
And follow me to the hollow hell.
Cold walls take from this place one thing, the only thing. Life.
And time breathes her eternal sighs as every horror lies beneath the sand.
But none so terrible as that old dragon, Leviathan.
Beaten by the reed and the strap, Father Osiris pounds the flesh.
Making a man that will walk the length of the desert sands
And still fail to find himself. Slain to Set and drowned by the Nile,
What knife cuts his mark and leaves me looking for the scars I left?
That stale water runs down this neck,
The disgust for Isis And the longing to fall back into the Mind of Egypt
Nevertheless, the flesh fails. What holds the Mind but the Life it carries?
Hail Osiris and let him be damned!
Hail Leviathan! Hail Leviathan!
The Life of Egypt! The Blood of the Nile!

Strip me! Naked I am, nothing pressed to me but sand.
Grain on grain scratched, removed and scarred.
Now worn and used by the desert, Horus whispers with promise.
I am Abel and he Cain! Stack the hierarchies and fell the archetypes!
O my brother Set, where are my Adam and Eve?
Leviathan coils around the Nile. My Tree, my Tet bears no fruit like her.
What is the fruit of the Nile? This backbone. The land, the people!
Egypt! Beloved Egypt! Seeded, fertile and proud.
Overripe and robust, she stores in her belly all potential for mankind.
Eat her fragrant pomegranates and spit the seeds back to Geb!
Now the apple seems so bland in comparison to the beauty of truth.
Hail Ma'at! Hail Ma'at! And enter my fathers belly.
Bornless! This Abyss eternal. Bornless! This barren world.
Her seasons starve and flood. Her blood flushing the land.
Let Leviathan breed new life and lay my soul on those scales.