Odin’s Out of Office Reply

Immense breaker of sunbeams, I climb

That cradles nine worlds and spans the sky

I’ll hang from Yggdrasil, spear in my side 

Upside down to gaze the bottomless void 

And all that lies in its shadows 

It’s not even my ultimate sacrifice 

Remember the time I bartered my eye?

This is how I spend my vacation time

Don’t mistake me for Jesus Christ, I’m

The Lord of the Gallows 

Nine seering suns and gale force winds

Roast and freeze my naked limbs

Til by bond of frost and bane of wood

I saw carved and colored with sacrificial blood 

The secrets of the runes 

Spewed from blackness, I take them screaming 

And fall to Midgard, burning, bleeding 

To remind humanity they’re beyond redeeming

Believe what you want to; life’s without meaning 

And nothing’s really true