Ebon Spires of Dread

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To engender a thrall to trepidation
A cyclonic gyre of chagrinous dread
A mute debilitated quiescence
Gagged by the charlatanry of spurious canon

A mirror's glaze of faith's swift ephemerality
The strident antiphon of warped scripture is intoned
To venerate the obfuscation ensconced therein
Homily delivered on the dais in compact with archfiend

The cavalcade of bestial phalanxes
A clandestine fabrication of the chrism's effigy
To mandate a fatal ineluctable toll
The gradations ascending to celestial spheres
The oblation of corruption we ingest

A psyche manacled by the fetter of the query
Its gait shattered permanently laggard
Incarcerated without the stanchions of the cage
The visage of renewed serfdom

The nurturing of pervasive duplicity
The lie's dagger-thrust the nebulous inferno's gleam
Its respiration pure disquietude; sacrosanct value recedes
To orchestrate a somber choral lamentation
A dolorous cadence that reverberates

Specious verity radiating from pupils unlustrous pitch
The vortex of perturbation
The articulations of the unresolved conundrum