The maelstrom swirled around us now
The water tended to blacken
The shriek of wind and crash of wave
Heralded the coming of the kraken

The black eyes of the beast
Offer deep demise to those who see
A longing glance as you stared
While others tried to flee

The vilest of communication passes
From dark and ancient origin
The priest rides the water dragon
Venom spewing as the basest sin

Eight claws clutch as doom
Ever placing you in squalor
Sucking the flesh from your bones
And burning away your valor

Eight paths to deepest hell
The river bridged anon
The gates open widely for you
Your passage has been won

If you desire all in excess
Smother food with wildest honey
The kraken pulls you close to him
Your sin has the taste of gluttony

If you are weakest in the flesh
And given into cold temptation
The kraken pulls you close to him
As you kiss the lips of fornication

If you want to take what others have
Above a desire to be seen as righteous
The kraken pulls you close to him
Because you smell of covetous

If you hate with deepest pain
Because of strongest languor
The kraken pulls you close to him
Your sin is bloody anger

If your lack of confidence
Leeds to feelings of rejection
The kraken pulls you close to him
For you suffer from dejection

If burdened by a troubled heart
And possessing a demonic malady
The kraken pulls you close to him
You are weak from weariness and accidie

If a lust for self above all others
Tells the sad but truest story
The kraken pulls you close to him
He senses pride and vainest glory

If truest love you contemplate
Has no base in common happenstance
The kraken pulls you close to him
Your sin is willful arrogance

Many ways to find your end
While dancing with the dragon
At least we have a warning tale
Told to us by a saint called Cassian