[Lyric] Embracing A Malign Unknown (Erebor)

Bound and held aloft
Ropes tied by Bedouin hands
Borne swiftly ‘fore
Stowed upon seas of golden sands

Dragged atop citrine waves
Hands bound - eyes unseeing
Cords lashed around my chest
Lowered slowly into unforgiving darkness

Endlessly I descend
Further into the rough-hewn nether earth
Miles pass yet no respite
The narrow passage shredding the skin

Consciousness slips beyond me
Drifting between the real and thе dream
This eldritch flight through Stygian space
Comеs to an end

Journey ended, I awake in darkness
Tether laying slack behind me
Greeted by the bowels
Of some forsaken temple
Labyrinthine wandering
Horrors awakened yet not perceived

Guided by the scent of fetid air
My eyes not betraying the darkness
Lead by this detestable vapor
My embrace of a malign unknown

From beyond the unscalable pillars
Ceremonial chorus entices me on
The sound and smell coalesce
Intrigue guiding my steps

Faintly another sound rising in volume
Thousands marching in dismal unison
A procession of unnameable entities
Light from their torches, illuminating

As the horrors progress toward me
I enshroud myself in the shadow I fear
Lost once again in the darkness
Is this to be my fate?