The Twelvefold Inferno

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Ash in the twilight Fire below A voice in the iron Calling me home Under the red sky Under the stone Something remembers The shape of my soul Down in the silence Deep in the flame I touch the darkness It answers my name It opens slowly It calls me near Like a forgotten prayer Still burning here Open, Embergate Call my hidden name Let the buried choirs awaken Let them rise in flame Open, Embergate I am not afraid If the dark has kept a kingdom I will walk its way Twelve are the echoes Under my skin Twelve are the shadows Waiting within The pillars tremble The hinges cry Gold turns to cinder In the furnace light It knows my silence It knows my pain Like a forgotten prayer Calling again Open, Embergate Call my hidden name Let the buried choirs awaken Let them rise in flame Open, Embergate I am not afraid If the dark has kept a kingdom I will walk its way No heaven above me No hand to save Only the fire Only the gate If I must enter If I must change Let all the embers Crown me in flame Open, Embergate Call my truest name Let the first of twelve awaken Let it rise in flame Open, Embergate I am not afraid Through the ash, the dark, the silence I will walk my way Ash in the twilight Fire below The gate remembers And lets me go

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SHINHWI

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Gold in the fire Dust on the crown A throne in the silence Waiting to drown High above mercy Cold as a blade The hall of the nameless Still remembers their praise They built their heaven Out of their names Carved into marble And fed into flame They wore their glory Like radiant chains Blind to the hollow Beneath all the weight Higher and higher They rose alone Till even the light Would not call them home Throne of the proud Break under me now Let every golden promise Fall into the ground Throne of the proud Sing without a sound All who called themselves eternal Are buried in the crown Their voices thundered Like they were gods But every echo Was hungry for loss No hand could hold them No sky could save They turned their faces From all they could not claim Higher and higher The great ones climb Till all their mirrors Turn black with time Throne of the proud Break under me now Let every golden promise Fall into the ground Throne of the proud Sing without a sound All who called themselves eternal Are buried in the crown Kneel to no heaven Bow to no flame Still the ruin knows them Still it speaks their name Crowned by desire Undone by height All that stood above us Falls tonight Throne of the proud Burn before me now Let every gilded shadow Scatter from the ground Throne of the proud Cry without a sound All who called themselves immortal Drown beneath the crown Gold in the fire Dust in the air The throne is empty But pride is still there

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SHINHWI

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Silver on the table Ash inside the wine Laughter in the distance Nothing here is mine Candles bending softly Shadows start to sway Every empty mouth below Is calling me to stay Gold upon the plates Dust upon the tongue I taste the sweetness once And need another one Every door is open Every hand invites But all the warmth I gather Turns to hunger in the light The more I take The more it grows A hollow down beneath the bones It sings so low It pulls so slow And calls me deeper than I know Feast of the hollow Feed the fire below Pour the dark into me Till there’s nowhere left to go Feast of the hollow Still I want it all Every light I swallow Only makes me small Fruit made out of ember Bread made out of smoke I fill my hands with splendor It crumbles as I choke The hall is overflowing Yet nothing answers need The more I drink the silence The more the silence feeds The more I take The less remains A thousand hands inside my veins They whisper soft They pull me close To where the endless craving grows Feast of the hollow Feed the fire below Pour the dark into me Till there’s nowhere left to go Feast of the hollow Still I want it all Every light I swallow Only makes me small Open the silver Open the skin Lay out the longing Let it begin One more to fill me One more to drown One more to carry This hunger down Feast of the hollow Crown the fire below All the love I gathered Only learned to go Feast of the hollow Still I take the call Every dream I swallow Leaves me wanting all Silver on the table Ash inside my throat The feast is never ending And neither is the hole

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SHINHWI

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Gold in the arches Gold in the rain Gold on the fingers Hiding the stain Light on the surface Rot underneath A palace of mirrors Built over teeth I saw them shining Silent and tall Hands full of splendor Eyes empty as walls They gathered kingdoms They gathered names But every jeweled promise Curdled in the flame The more they hold The less remains A gleam above A buried plague It glows so bright It dies so slow Like something holy Turned into stone Gilded decay Wear your crown of gold Every shining empire Breaks beneath its hold Gilded decay Cold and beautiful All the wealth you worship Cannot make you whole The floors are gleaming The air is still Every vein of treasure Bends against the will They kissed the metal They blessed the chain And called it heaven As it fed the stain The more they keep The more they fade A hymn of gold A hollow grave It speaks in light It breeds in rust A perfect idol Built from dust Gilded decay Wear your crown of gold Every shining empire Breaks beneath its hold Gilded decay Cold and beautiful All the wealth you worship Cannot make you whole Count every blessing Count every scar Measure the distance From ruin to star Fill every chamber Seal every door Still there is hunger Still there is more Gilded decay Lay your treasure down All the gilded angels Drown beneath the crown Gilded decay Bright and merciful All the hands that clutched the heavens Return to dust alone Gold in the silence Gold in the bone Nothing was ever yours Nothing was ever owned

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SHINHWI

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Come closer... feel my fire... Ahh... deeper... lose yourself in me... Candles bending low Red across the bed Smoke along the mirror Your name in my head Come a little closer Leave the door undone Perfume on the velvet Heat without the sun Your voice moves so slowly Soft against my skin I know I should refuse you I let the dark begin Don’t call this mercy Don’t call this love The danger feels too holy To ever be enough Come into the crimson Let it stain your skin Breathe me in like worship Taste me like a sin Stay until the candles shake Stay until the dark turns sweet If I pull you down beside me Don’t say you want to leave Lace along the shadow Wine upon your breath You look a little heaven You sound a little death Your touch is slow and certain Your smile is razor-thin Every time I should escape you I only lean back in Don’t promise me the morning Don’t swear that this won’t burn The sweetest hands I’ve fallen to Were never mine to learn Come into the crimson Let it stain your skin Breathe me in like worship Taste me like a sin Stay until the candles shake Stay until the dark turns sweet If I pull you down beside me Don’t say you want to leave Velvet hides the warning Perfume hides the blade Some things feel like heaven Just before they break Hold me in the silence Slow enough to sink Some doors open softly Far deeper than you think Come into the crimson Let it stain your skin Breathe me in like worship Taste me like a sin Stay until the candles die Stay until you melt in heat If I pull your heart into me Let it happen slow and sweet Candles bending low Smoke above the red You’re still in the silence You’re still in my head Faster... harder... feel the edge approaching... Ahh... ahh... don't hold back... shatter for me...

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SHINHWI

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Boots in the cinder Dust in the flame Drums in the distance Calling my name Steel in the twilight Red in the sky Some things are buried Some never die I hear the dead behind me I hear them in the ground Every broken vow they left Still beats without a sound The road is split with embers The air is thick with ash And every step I take now Turns memory into wrath No more kneeling in the fire No more begging for release All the wounds they gave us Only taught our feet to lead We walk where the red fires gather We rise where the black dust falls No prayer left in our throats now Only the march, the call And if the sky breaks over us Let it break in burning light We were not made for mercy We were made to cross the night The banners drag through smoke Like scars across the dawn The ones they thought were finished Are the ones still moving on Every name abandoned Every hand denied Becomes another heartbeat In the rhythm of our stride No more silence in the ruins No more saints beneath their chains All the blood they tried to bury Returns and speaks again We walk where the red fires gather We rise where the black dust falls No prayer left in our throats now Only the march, the call And if the sky breaks over us Let it break in burning light We were not made for mercy We were made to cross the night Left, right Ash and iron Left, right Wrath ascending Lift the fallen Name the vanished Beat the earth Until it answers We walk where the red fires gather We rise where the black dust falls No fear left in our bodies Only the march, the call And if the gates stand over us Let them tremble at the sight We were not made for heaven We were made to survive the night Boots in the cinder Red in the sky The march keeps moving And so do I

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SHINHWI

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Dust on the window Frost in the hall A clock without motion Still hangs on the wall Light without morning Breath without sound Something is living But won’t settle down I waited in the silence Till silence filled the room The air became so heavy It pressed against my lungs The floor beneath me softened The walls forgot my name And all the hours around me Began to look the same No voice to break it No hand to move Only the weight Of nothing to lose Here in the hour that never moves I fade, but never leave Every thought becomes a shadow Too tired to believe And all the days blur into grey Too numb to fall apart Something keeps on beating softly In the ruins of my heart The candle does not flicker The water does not shake Even the ache inside me Is slow enough to stay I hear my body breathing As if it isn’t mine A shape beneath the stillness Unwinding out of time No fire to carry No wound to heal Only the hush Of what I still feel Here in the hour that never moves I fade, but never leave Every thought becomes a shadow Too tired to believe And all the days blur into grey Too numb to fall apart Something keeps on beating softly In the ruins of my heart Stay still Stay low Let the cold Pass through slow No cry No flame Only time Without a name Here in the hour that never moves I sink, but never sleep Every dream becomes a silence Too dark and far to keep And all the days blur into grey Too numb to come undone Something cold is watching softly Till the unmoving hour is done Dust on the window Frost in the hall The clock is still hanging But says nothing at all

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SHINHWI

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Glass in the candlelight Water without end A face in the distance Wearing my skin again Silver in fragments Cold on the floor Something keeps looking Back through the mirror more I saw another version Standing where I stand Light upon her shoulders Everything I never had She moved like she was effortless She shone without a scar And all the parts I buried Started reaching for her heart The mirror kept on widening The room began to bend I couldn’t tell which mouth was mine Or where her breathing went The closer I get The less I remain A little more beauty A little less name There’s a girl beneath the mirror And she looks the way I don’t All the light I thought would save me Only shows me what I’m not So I lean into the shimmer Let it pull me past the glass If I lose my face to longing Will she finally let me pass Her smile is made of silence Her hands are made of dawn Every grace I envied in her Feels like something I once was The surface starts to tremble My shadow splits in two I touch the place she stands in And the fracture opens through Now every wall reflects her Every window knows her name And all the love I gave myself Turns bitter in the frame The deeper I go The less I can say A little more longing A little less shape There’s a girl beneath the mirror And she looks the way I don’t All the light I thought would save me Only shows me what I’m not So I lean into the shimmer Let it pull me past the glass If I lose my face to longing Will she finally let me pass Break the silver Break the skin Let the wanting Flood me in If I become What I pursue Tell me, mirror Who is who There’s a girl beneath the mirror And she wears my voice like silk All the dreams I fed with hunger Turn to water, turn to guilt So I lean into the shimmer Till the glass becomes my past If I drown inside her image Will I finally fade at last Glass in the candlelight Water on the floor Someone is still looking Through the mirror more

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SHINHWI

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Name the fire. Name the wound. Name the mouth that spoke too soon. Break the idol. Break the spine. Let the sacred bleed its sign. We learned the hymn in a burning tongue. We kept the ash where the prayers were sung. We wore the mark. We drank the light. We called it mercy. We called it right. But the altar cracked. But the veil grew thin. And the voice beneath Said, let us in. Glory to the broken heaven. Glory to the nameless sin. Raise the choir of the fallen. Let the blasphemy begin. Glory to the hand that trembles. Glory to the mouth that lies. If the holy gate is dying, Sing until it opens wide. We kissed the dust from a ruined crown. We turned the star and we cast it down. We heard the bells. They bent in pain. We blessed the flood. We praised the stain. And the candle spoke. And the marble thinned. And the dark below Said, let us in. Glory to the broken heaven. Glory to the nameless sin. Raise the choir of the fallen. Let the blasphemy begin. Glory to the hand that trembles. Glory to the mouth that lies. If the holy gate is dying, Sing until it opens wide. No saint. No throne. No law carved into bone. No light Unstained. No god that leaves unchanged. Take the word. Twist the breath. Make a sacrament of death. Glory to the broken heaven. Glory to the severed wing. Raise the choir of the faithless. Make the ruined rafters ring. Glory to the last refusal. Glory to the final cry. If the holy gate is dying, Sing until the stars go blind. Name the fire. Name the wound. We are the mouth that answered soon. Break the idol. Break the spine. Let the sacred lose its name.

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SHINHWI

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Beneath these arches made of silence Beneath these ribs of stone and white The dead are laid in patient splendor And dream beneath a starless light The bells are slow The air is thin The dust remembers Where they’ve been I walked between the rows of nameless And felt the cold upon my hands Each shattered prayer, each severed breathing Still resting in these hollowed lands No cry remained, no sword was lifted No fire was left to cleanse or claim Only the hush of ancient marrow Only the weight of every name So let the mourning rise around them Soft as ash and deep as time Let every broken life be gathered Into this unfinished hymn Sing low for the fallen Sing slow for the lost Let the light pass gently over All that love could not hold on to Here in the cathedral of bone Where the shadows kneel in white We give our dead to silence And we keep their names alive The pillars shine with pale remembering The vaulted dark begins to bloom Like all the grief this world abandoned Has found a shape inside this room I hear them not as rage or thunder But like the tide beneath the stone A thousand hearts that once were broken Still beating through the undertone So let the mourning fill the rafters Let it move through dust and flame Not to awaken what has perished But to bless what still remains Sing low for the fallen Sing slow for the lost Let the light pass gently over All that love could not hold on to Here in the cathedral of bone Where the shadows kneel in white We give our dead to silence And we keep their names alive If sorrow is a kind of temple Then let these ruins learn to sing If memory is the last communion Then let it pass through everything No hand can lift the buried fully No voice can make the severed whole But we can stand beneath their absence And let our grief become a soul Sing low for the fallen Sing slow for the lost Let the dawn break pale and distant On the wounds we could not soften Here in the cathedral of bone Where the night wears tender white We lay our dead in silence And we carry out their light Beneath these arches made of silence Beneath these ribs of stone and white The dead are not returned to heaven But neither are they lost to night

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SHINHWI

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Begin below. Turn the black wheel. Open the furnace. Confirm the seal. Count the bodies. Count the breath. Feed the engine. Measure death. Take the sorrow from the marrow. Strip the heat from every vein. File the memory into numbers. Run the loss through iron frames. Grind the promise. Press the fracture. Melt the voice to static thread. What was holy, what was human, Burn it down to force instead. Input received. The chamber knows. What enters living Leaves in rows. No prayer detected. No mercy found. Only the turning. Only the sound. Stack the nameless in the circuit. Thread the guilt through copper light. Every heartbeat has a function. Every terror has a price. Bind the hunger to the piston. Lock the longing to the chain. If the soul resists the process, Run the sequence once again. But something small remains. A flicker in the wire. A name that will not cool. A mouth inside the fire. It says: I was not made for this. I was not made to turn. I was not meant to vanish As a fuel that does not burn. Error noted. Error thins. Purge the witness. Restart spin. Tighten pressure. Raise the flame. Remove the face. Retain the pain. [Terminal Sequence] Turn, abyssal engine. Turn until the dark runs clean. Turn the grief to power. Turn the blood to gasoline. Turn, abyssal engine. Turn beneath the broken world. If there is a god still listening, Let it choke on what it built. Begin below. Confirm the seal. Nothing living Leaves the wheel.

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SHINHWI

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At the end of the fire There was no throne of gold Only a ring of cinders Still breathing in the cold At the end of the descent Where the last bells fell apart I found no hand above me Only the weight inside my heart I have walked through the hunger I have worn the mirror thin I have knelt in halls of silence I have fed the buried flame within I have heard the choir shatter I have seen the engine turn Every wound became a doorway Every name became a burn And now the dark is quiet Now the ash can finally speak Not as curse, not as promise But as something I can keep Set the cinder crown upon me Let it rest and let it sear I was never meant for heaven I was always forged down here Let the broken gates remember Let the fallen stars look down I have crossed the twelve below me Now I rise with fire around There were bones beneath the rafters There were mouths beneath the hymn There were hands that reached through crimson There were nights that pulled me in There were hours without motion There were lights that lied like grace But I gathered every ruin And I gave it back a face So if there is any mercy It is not the kind that saves It is only this becoming It is only what remains Set the cinder crown upon me Let it rest and let it sear I was never meant for heaven I was always forged down here Let the broken gates remember Let the fallen stars look down I have crossed the twelve below me Now I rise with fire around Not redeemed. Not undone. Not forgiven. Still become. Not made pure By light above But made whole By what I was. If the ash still holds a language Let it speak through every scar If the dark still keeps a kingdom Then I know now what we are We are not the lost and buried We are not the failed and thrown We are all the fires that lived When every sacred wall was gone Set the cinder crown upon me Let it burn, but let it shine All the hells I crossed are breathing All their embers now are mine Let the broken gates lie open Let the dead speak through the dawn I have carried every shadow Now I wear the coming storm At the end of the fire I was not ash alone I was the hand that reached the darkness And returned with something whole

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SHINHWI