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Let no man the gate to this most blasphemous of halls Lest bitterness and chaos be the harvest they wouldst He must n'er become a slave to this beck and call For she never waken from her Crimson Sleep.. The monastery stood towering above the city It shadowed all the new settlements and homes To look down on the ruins was to sympathize and All the suffering and heartache, all the graves and bones For there a testament to the evil of a queen A misery that spread across a 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 manuscript that lay within her and trembling arms She looked around her nervously as rose in her heart But the of curiosity had drawn her out too far
She wavered on the threshold of a decision For this dark tome was no for eyes to ever read The pages dripped legions of persuasive words and visions So the volume had been well, but now it had been freed
For no apparent reason had the been drawn in Perhaps it was a twist of fate, an absence of real She to a room that before she'd never been And all at once the of her senses had been caught For no reason had the women been drawn in Where rows of books lay in an ominous display
But one ancient leather had the grain of human skin And seized with curiosity she stole this away
And now she sat alone in the concealment of the She was hungry now to liberate the from their cage The glimmer of a feeble moon provided her with As she opened up the cover and began to the page Fly, soul, the guest, Upon impish arrant Let none be guiled by confession Truth shall be your Fly for your body must die
But for those who eternity For those who yearn From this act of sanity raise you far above humanity
Oh willing host who not know The desire of this prisoner You walk where angels to go Thou shalt embrace the reckoner Thy halo of glory, hope's gage May prove to be an pilgrimage
Something had happened beyond her A moment of unfettered a soul That would relish a freedom once before By a desperate nation with back to the wall Within a split second of reading text The spirit was and had fled from its nest It was eager to grow this sudden reprieve And thus in the woman a life was the beginning the world was misled As a was born in a monastery bed The miracle happening here on this Was perceived as a glorious new Birth
From the moment in time that was born The sun did now rise on a new Crimson And the creature just bided its time So safe in the cradling of the mother
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But for who seek eternity For who yearn prosperity From single act of sanity Will you far above humanity
Secure from the world, the child remained A serpent disguised in the Garden of And all who looked down on this born babe Were now of the path this would take The people were blind to the subtle That was exercised daily upon every With no room to question delicate life All fears would be drowned and all doubts would be
But one single did stand out from the crowd Though at first - with hardly a sound The Mother Superior harbored Brought to her heart by three simple
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The was a planet engulfed by the sea No dry in sight, not a mountain or tree No rock jutted out from the endless Or flowers to out the changing of seasons
No animals dwelt in the forests or All life was its fate had been sealed
By the curse of a violent unstoppable Mankind had been drowned in an of blood
The revelation was vivid and cruel It two swordsmen engrossed in a duel The one held a sword that was silver and The other a sword that was red to the
fought as the sun rose high in the sky Their fight not end until one of them died No did they have for an error to make For the future of life was the at stake
But one of the warriors flouted the And with cunning and had the other one fooled As he up his hands in a gesture of peace The silver opponent allowed retreat
Then the man with the red sword attacked from Left the sword fighter defeated and blind Then carnage ensued that no man condone As the bloody red blade through sinew and bone
All day did the attack without halt Though the other lay dead from the assault Until by the and all that remained Were the echoes of and a fresh crimson stain
And so the third of these unyielding visions A of war and ferocious divisions An army of saviors as one that the end had already begun
They in a field, which was wide and expansive They waited in both ready and pensive The grassland was strewn with crimson petals Their fragrance was with the stench of the devil
And slowly but surely they into sleep Their gone as they slumped in defeat And they still lie bereft of their willpower Brought to their knees by the strength of a
The visions, the Mother Superior bore A bitter forewarning of was in store This so frail must not grow to be strong The was at risk if she waited too long So veiled by the of night she did creep And enter where and child were both asleep And onwards she moved to where the lay She leant over the baby and to pray She prayed for forgiveness for she would do She prayed that the knife in her hand aim true But all of a sudden she was now The baby had opened her eyes
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And into those eyes, the woman The look in her face was haunted and crazed She was smothered and swamped in confusion and The first to be gripped by this foul crimson brutal psychosis could not be explained No one single cause was suggested or But no one could that a child was involved And the mystery illness unresolved
So all seemed as for seven short years A veil of deception dissolved any But there was one in the child's disguise And that could be seen in the of her eyes
The message could be discovered there In the of the universe found in her stare Her gaze hypnotic, unbearably Suspicions growing, it wouldn't be long Oh willing who doth not know The full of this prisoner You walk angels fear to go shalt soon embrace the reckoner
Now and a question would be raised Strong misgivings threatened to be But these were judgments not to say To doubt the child could prove to be a and deadly choice By now the Crimson reign had too much The was shadowed under dread But fear decreed that hostile be crushed For the creature had the to crawl inside your head The mother in her darkest knew The time had come for action to be
A journey must be made to truths She must return and again the book she had forsaken
This presented many further views Essential rules of power revealed And thus the pages up one clue The child one significant Archilles Heel Should the Crimson be blinded, then powerless she'll be of piercing vision, her victims will be free
Salvation in banishing this creature to the dark Let not your be hesitant or death will be your mark Lest regained should speed her flight away from burning hell A steady heart seal her back within her crimson cell
And thou who didst release this most enemy Must serve to be her warder for all eternity
One quiet night the lady out beyond the monastery Her was one of urgency and human preservation She traveled with companions to reach the city Where lay the means to save her kind, a path to salvation When there they searched for evidence of where the once slept And came upon a gateway, was tightly closed and barred A stark inscription warned them of the risk of next step But were no more; they had already come too far
Let no man breach the gate to this most blasphemous of bitterness and chaos be the harvest they wouldst reap He must n'er a slave 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 themselves a cell where crimson shade were scattered A sight so it chilled their very souls The cell had been drained and all around the glass lay shattered
A in the shadows A of blazing light The child stood them With murder in her The women ran her To try to the tide Of purse and crimson There was nowhere left to Too slow was their They were thrown back off feet Their throats filled with panic As they stared as defeat Too weak was their They staunch the trail Of and vengeance Meted out for betrayal So the mother's compatriots Consumed damning pain writhing in the dirt They were bleeding and They'd looked into the child's And crumbled in From too hideous For human minds to Salvation lies in This to the dark Let not hand be hesitant Or will be your mark" But there was one single hope No for fear or doubt The mother knew there was no She had to end now
She crawled the bloodstained ground Her eyes averted the steely glare But secretly she she'd found A way beyond this
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A few more seconds spanned the success or damnation Mankind would face the aftermath Of this deadly Got to strike for the Leave the running blind Go to cross the Got to strike for those unforgiving
She herself with trivial thought A of insignificance Her daughter to see beyond The fabric of
For a moment they face to face No sign of what was to be But still her mind to break Those thoughts must not be Got to strike for the Leave the monster blind Go to the line Got to strike for unforgiving eyes
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Striking hard, fast in desperation The world is filled with shades of red Forced to stand in weak As rivulets of blood run the Child's head The chamber fills with screams of violent Of petulance and impotent Consumed with frenzied tidal of hate The princess to earth in dark sedation
Her blindness stunts the growth of power That grows within her like some poisonous The blade of darkness strikes her to the And so the inside begins to wilt But time is for action to be taken No to dwell on pity or mistakes No chance for dark to be found The moment of must be now!
me to the crimson flames Thou the power should I be blind To my wicked reign And throw me to the pit of me to the crimson flames Thou shalt bar the doors of these words of sacred rule Seal me in my cell
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And thus was read the Voices echoed and round The woman in weak elation inside the sounds
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And with these of higher lore So mortal began to fade Soon child and mother were no Their earthly bodies now
Cast me to the flames Thou shalt bar the doors of Incant these words of sacred Seal me in my crimson
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And inside the chamber stands A cell with crimson hue Resealed by spoken of Man Imbued with power spiritual Truth Two imprisoned for eternity Light and dark forever Two souls that can be freed A pathway back not be found For beyond some foolish reach And far from prying eyes
No channel now to lead or No chance to influence or The sacrifice she took the hope of the human race And thus she holds the book A captive in her space
Lest bitterness and be the harvest they wouldst reap For she must never waken from Crimson Sleep
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