Wasting away within This carapace of days No more the mortal displays Displaced desire's bane Tainted sacred rites Sorrow hatred and spite Torches like spirits enslaved Condemned by cave walls Pitiless night surrounding Fragments of temporal space Tenebrous violent and deft Somber, morose until the ascent Writhing fear I sheath now Silence for what beneath howls A grin of wisdom Resplendent mouth The feral torpor envelopes me Wasting away within This carapace of days No more the mortal display Displaced desire's bane Pitiless night surrounding Fragments of temporal space By the stars Inundated From an inchoate essence I climbed the highest dakhma to find it