Esau, the Sin Eater

from Whitewashed Tomb by Grave Sermon

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Gaunt, ghastly, lean, miserably poor
Esau took his place, facing the door
The old funeral custom, a humble final meal
Passed across the corpse, ritual consumption

The question hung in the air,
A lingering miasma
Has he seized the power of death?
Or chosen to bear its consequence?

Absorbed! a plea to ancient forces
Absolved! the virtuous in repose

Esau paid a heavy price, for silver, bread, and ale
To mete out profanity, he pawned his own birth right
No one dared to meet his gaze as he purified the dead
Fearful, damned, wretched, an instrument of dread

The question hung in the air
A lingering miasma
Has he seized the power of death?
Or chosen to bear its consequence?

Absorbed! a forbidden sacrament
Absolved! ensuring his passage to hell

No one dared to meet his gaze as he purified the dead
Fearful, damned, wretched, an instrument of dread
Driven past the threshold once the sacrament was complete
To the ring of incantation, his maple bowl was burned

Condemned to a remote place, bedeviled by the deeds of the dead
Condemned to a remote place, laden with their blackened souls

A penance for his father, and his father before.
A scapegoat. Emissary of death.

Wandering between
the bog and the corpse road.
Somnambulant. He merged
into the shadows, formless as they.

Absorbed! a plea to ancient forces
Absolved! a forbidden sacrament
In thrall to the eternal spectre of death
Whose triumph is absolute. -

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from Whitewashed Tomb, released October 16, 2019

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