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Let no man breach the gate to most blasphemous of halls Lest bitterness and chaos be the harvest they wouldst He must n'er become a slave to this Child's beck and For she must never waken her Crimson Sleep.. The stood towering above the ruined city It shadowed all the new emerging and homes To look down on the ruins was to and pity All the suffering and heartache, all the graves and broken For buried a testament to the evil of a queen A misery spread across a weak and stricken land The crimson birth that swamped the earth in and deadly dreams And all mankind did bow beneath the power of her
And in the monastery garden sat a woman with a A that lay within her frail and trembling arms She looked around her nervously as guilt in her heart But the of curiosity had drawn her out too far
She on the threshold of a dangerous decision For this dark tome was no for human eyes to read The pages dripped with legions of persuasive and visions So the volume had hidden well, but now it had been freed
For no apparent had the woman been drawn in Perhaps it was a twist of fate, an absence of thought She to a room that before she'd never been And all at once the interest of her senses had caught For no apparent reason had the women drawn in Where rows of dusty lay in an ominous display
But one leather binding had the grain of human skin And seized curiosity she stole this book away
And now she sat in the concealment of the night She was now to liberate the writings from their cage The glimmer of a moon provided her with light As she opened up the and began to read the page Fly, soul, the guest, Upon impish arrant Let none be by false confession Truth be your warrant Fly for your body must die
But for those who seek For those who prosperity From single act of sanity raise you far above humanity
Oh willing host who not know The full of this prisoner You walk where angels to go shalt soon embrace the reckoner Thy halo of glory, true gage May to be an evil pilgrimage
Something had happened beyond her A moment of madness a soul That would relish a freedom denied once By a desperate nation with it's to the wall a split second of reading this text The spirit was free and had from its nest It was to grow from this sudden reprieve And thus in the woman a life was From the the world was misled As a was born in a monastery bed The miracle happening on this Earth Was perceived as a glorious new Virgin
From the moment in time baby was born The sun did now rise on a new dawn And the creature just its time undiscovered So safe in the cradling arms of the
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But for those who seek For those who yearn this single act of sanity Will you far above humanity
Secure from the world, the child remained A serpent disguised in the of Eden And all who looked down on this born babe Were ignorant now of the this would take The people were blind to the control That was daily upon every soul With no room to question delicate life All fears would be and all doubts would be stifled
But one single mind did stand out the crowd Though quiet at first - with a sound The Mother harbored suspicion Brought to her by three simple vision
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The first was a engulfed by the sea No dry land in sight, not a or tree No jutted out from the endless horizon Or flowers to mark out the changing of
No animals in the forests or fields All life was extinct; its fate had been
By the curse of a violent unstoppable had been drowned in an ocean of blood
The next revelation was and cruel It depicted two swordsmen in a duel The one held a sword that was silver and The a sword that was red to the core
They as the sun rose high in the sky fight would not end until one of them died No room did they have for an error to For the future of life was the at stake
But one of the flouted the rules And with cunning and guile had the one fooled As he held up his in a gesture of peace The silver opponent allowed this
Then the man with the red sword attacked from Left the silver sword fighter defeated and Then carnage ensued no man could condone As the bloody red blade sliced through sinew and
All day did the swordsman attack halt Though the lay dead from the frenzied assault Until by the twilight and all that Were the echoes of death and a fresh stain
And so came the third of these unyielding A picture of war and divisions An of saviors marching as one that the end had already begun
They arrived in a field, was wide and expansive They waited in silence both ready and The grassland was strewn with small petals Their fragrance was sweet the stench of the devil
And slowly but surely they fell sleep consciousness gone as they slumped in defeat And there they lie bereft of their willpower Brought to their knees by the strength of a
The visions, the Mother Superior bore A bitter forewarning of what was in infant so frail must not grow to be strong The world was at risk if she too long So by the blackness of night she did creep And enter where mother and were both asleep And onwards she moved to where the lay She leant over the and started to pray She prayed for forgiveness for she would do She prayed that the in her hand would aim true But all of a she was now paralyzed The baby daughter had her eyes
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And into those eyes, the woman The in her face was both haunted and crazed She was smothered and swamped in and sadness The first to be by this foul crimson madness brutal psychosis could not be explained No one cause was suggested or blamed But no one could think that a child was And the mystery illness remained
So all seemed as for seven short years A veil of dissolved any fears But there was one in the child's disguise And that could be in the depths of her eyes
The message could clearly be discovered In the glimpse of the found in her stare Her hypnotic, unbearably strong Suspicions were growing, it be long Oh host who doth not know The full of this prisoner You walk angels fear to go Thou soon embrace the reckoner
Now and then a question be raised Strong threatened to be voiced But these judgments wiser not to say To doubt the child prove to be a rash and deadly choice By now the reign had proved too much The monastery was under dread But fear that hostile thoughts be crushed For the creature had the power to crawl inside your The mother in her darkest knew The had come for action to be taken
A journey must be to hidden truths She must return and read again the book she had
tome presented many further views Essential rules of were revealed And thus the pages up one clue The bore one significant Archilles Heel Should the Crimson Queen be blinded, powerless she'll be Bereft of piercing vision, her victims be free
Salvation lies in banishing creature to the dark Let not your hand be hesitant or death be your mark Lest regained sight should her flight away from burning hell A steady heart must seal her back within her crimson
And thou who didst release most vindictive enemy serve to be her warder there for all eternity
One quiet night the lady traveled out beyond the Her quest was one of urgency and preservation She traveled with to reach the ruined city lay the means to save her kind, a path to their salvation When there they searched for evidence of where the Queen slept And came upon a gateway, which was tightly closed and A stark warned them of the risk of their next step But choices were no more; had already come too far
Let no man breach the to this most blasphemous of halls Lest bitterness and chaos be the harvest they wouldst He must n'er become a to this Child's beck and call For she never waken from her Crimson Sleep:
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With fresh resolve the women carried on towards goal And found themselves a cell where crimson shade were A so dreadful it chilled their very souls The cell had long been drained and all around the lay shattered
A movement in the A flash of blazing The child before them murder in her eyes The ran towards her To try to stem the Of purse and crimson There was nowhere to hide Too slow was reaction They were thrown off their feet Their were filled with panic As stared as harsh defeat Too was their protection They couldn't the trail Of and vengeance out for this betrayal So the brave compatriots with damning pain Died in the dirt They bleeding and insane They'd looked the child's eyes And crumbled in From images too For human minds to Salvation lies in This to the dark Let not your hand be Or death will be mark" But there was one single hope No room for or doubt The knew there was no choice She had to end now
She crawled across the bloodstained Her eyes averted the steely glare But secretly she knew found A way beyond this
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A few more seconds the path Between or damnation Mankind would face the speed Of deadly confrontation Got to strike for the Leave the running blind Go to cross the Got to strike for those unforgiving
She veiled with trivial thought A mask of Her daughter failed to see The fabric of
For a moment they were face to No of what was soon to be But still her mind refused to Those thoughts not be seen Got to strike for the Leave the monster running Go to the line Got to for those unforgiving eyes
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Striking hard, striking fast in The around is filled with shades of red Forced to stand in anticipation As rivulets of blood run down the Child's The chamber fills with of violent rage Of and impotent frustration Consumed with frenzied tidal waves of The princess to earth in dark sedation
Her blindness stunts the growth of nascent That grows within her like poisonous flower The blade of darkness strikes her to the And so the flower inside begins to But is short for action to be taken No chance to on pity or mistakes No chance for dark excuses to be The moment of must be now!
me to the crimson flames Thou hast the power should I be To overthrow my reign And me to the pit of time me to the crimson flames Thou shalt bar the doors of Incant these words of sacred Seal me in my cell
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And thus was the incantation Voices echoed round and The smiled in weak elation Mesmerized the sounds
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And with these chants of lore So mortal began to fade Soon child and mother were no Their earthly now decayed
me to the crimson flames Thou shalt bar the of hell Incant these of sacred rule me in my crimson cell
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And still inside the chamber A single with crimson hue by spoken word of Man Imbued with power from spiritual Two souls imprisoned for Light and dark bound Two souls never can be freed A back will not be found For trapped beyond some foolish And far from prying eyes
No channel now to or preach No chance to or guide The sacrifice she took the hope of the human race And thus she the sacred book A in her crimson space
Lest bitterness and chaos be the harvest they wouldst For she must waken from this Crimson Sleep
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