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Let no man the gate to this most blasphemous of halls Lest bitterness and chaos be the harvest they reap He must n'er become a slave to this Child's and call For she must never waken her Crimson Sleep.. The monastery stood towering above the ruined It shadowed all the new emerging settlements and To look down on the was to sympathize and pity All the suffering and heartache, all the graves and bones For buried there a testament to the evil of a A misery that spread across a weak and stricken The crimson birth swamped the earth in dark and deadly dreams And all mankind did bow beneath the of her hand
And in the monastery garden sat a with a book A manuscript that lay her frail and trembling arms She looked around her nervously as guilt in her heart But the sway of curiosity had her out too far
She wavered on the threshold of a decision For this tome was no for human eyes to ever read The dripped with legions of persuasive words and visions So the had been hidden well, but now it had been freed
For no apparent reason had the woman drawn in Perhaps it was a twist of fate, an absence of thought She wandered to a room that before she'd been And all at once the interest of her senses had been For no apparent reason had the women drawn in Where of dusty books lay in an ominous display
But one ancient leather 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 hungry now to liberate the writings from cage The glimmer of a feeble moon her with light As she opened up the cover and to read the page Fly, soul, the guest, your impish arrant Let be guiled by false confession Truth be your warrant Fly soul for your must die
But for those who eternity For who yearn prosperity From this act of sanity Will you far above humanity
Oh willing host who doth not 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 her control A moment of madness a soul That would relish a denied once before By a desperate nation with back to the wall Within a split second of reading this The spirit was free and had fled its nest It was to grow from this sudden reprieve And in the woman a life was conceived From the beginning the world was As a was born in a monastery bed The miracle here on this Earth Was as a glorious new Virgin Birth
From the in time that baby was born The sun did now on a new Crimson dawn And the creature just bided its undiscovered So safe in the cradling arms of the
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But for those who eternity For those who prosperity From this act of sanity Will raise you far above
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 path this would The people were blind to the control That was exercised upon every soul With no to question this delicate life All fears would be drowned and all doubts be stifled
But one single mind did stand out from the Though quiet at - with hardly a sound The Mother Superior suspicion to her heart by three simple vision
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The was a planet engulfed by the sea No dry land in sight, not a mountain or No rock out from the endless horizon Or to mark out the changing of seasons
No animals dwelt in the forests or All life was its fate had been sealed
By the of a violent unstoppable flood Mankind had been drowned in an of blood
The next revelation was vivid and It depicted two swordsmen engrossed in a The one held a that was silver and pure The other a sword was red to the core
They as the sun rose high in the sky Their fight would not end until one of died No room did have for an error to make For the of life was the trophy at stake
But one of the warriors the rules And cunning and guile had the other one fooled As he held up his in a gesture of peace The silver opponent allowed retreat
Then the man the red sword attacked from behind the silver sword fighter defeated and blind Then carnage ensued that no man could As the red blade sliced through sinew and bone
All day did the swordsman attack without Though the other lay dead from the frenzied 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 of war and ferocious divisions An army of saviors as one Aware that the end had already
They arrived in a field, which was wide and They in silence both ready and pensive The was strewn with small crimson petals Their fragrance was sweet with the stench of the
And slowly but they fell into sleep Their gone as they slumped in defeat And there still lie bereft of their willpower Brought to their knees by the of a flower
The visions, the Mother Superior bore A bitter of what was in store This so frail must not grow to be strong The world was at risk if she waited too So by the blackness of night she did creep And enter where mother and child were both And onwards she moved to where the lay She leant the baby and started to pray She prayed for for what she would do She prayed that the in her hand would aim true But all of a sudden she was now The baby daughter had opened her
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And into eyes, the woman gazed The in her face was both haunted and crazed She was and swamped in confusion and sadness The first to be gripped by this foul madness This brutal psychosis could not be No one single was suggested or blamed But no one could think that a child was And the mystery remained unresolved
So all as normal for seven short years A of deception dissolved any fears But was one lapse in the child's disguise And that be seen in the depths of her eyes
The message clearly be discovered there In the of the universe found in her stare Her hypnotic, unbearably strong Suspicions were growing, it wouldn't be Oh willing host who doth not The full desire of prisoner You where angels fear to go Thou shalt soon the reckoner
Now and then a question would be misgivings threatened to be voiced But were judgments wiser not to say To doubt the child could prove to be a rash and choice By now the reign had proved too much The monastery was shadowed dread But fear decreed that hostile thoughts be For the creature had the power to crawl your head The mother in her darkest knew The time had come for to be taken
A journey must be made to hidden She must return and again the book she had forsaken
This tome presented further views Essential of power were revealed And the pages offered up one clue The child bore one significant Heel Should the Crimson be blinded, then powerless she'll be Bereft of piercing vision, her victims will be
Salvation lies in banishing this creature to the Let not your hand be or death will be your mark Lest regained sight should speed her flight away from burning A steady heart must her back within her crimson cell
And thou who release this most vindictive enemy Must serve to be her warder there for all
One quiet the lady traveled out beyond the monastery Her quest was one of urgency and preservation She traveled with to reach the ruined city Where lay the means to save her kind, a to their salvation When there they searched for evidence of where the once slept And came upon a gateway, which was tightly closed and A stark inscription warned them of the risk of next step But choices were no more; had already come too far
Let no man the gate to this most blasphemous of halls Lest bitterness and chaos be the harvest they wouldst 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 carried on towards their goal And found a cell where crimson shade were scattered A sight so dreadful it chilled very souls The cell had long been drained and all around the lay shattered
A movement in the A of blazing light The child stood before With murder in her The women ran her To try to the tide Of purse and anger was nowhere left to hide Too slow was reaction They were thrown back off feet throats were filled with panic As stared as harsh defeat Too weak was their They staunch the trail Of and vengeance out for this betrayal So the mother's brave Consumed with damning Died in the dirt They bleeding and insane They'd looked the child's eyes And in despair images too hideous For human to bear 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 was no choice She had to end now
She crawled the bloodstained ground Her averted from the steely glare But secretly she knew she'd A way beyond this
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A few more spanned the path Between or damnation Mankind would the aftermath speed Of deadly confrontation Got to strike for the Leave the running blind Go to the line Got to strike for those unforgiving
She herself with trivial thought A mask of Her daughter failed to see The of irrelevance
For a moment they were to face No of what was soon to be But still her mind to break Those thoughts not be seen Got to for the eyes Leave the monster running Go to cross the Got to strike for those eyes
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Striking hard, fast in desperation The world around is filled with of red Forced to stand in weak As rivulets of blood run the Child's head The chamber fills with screams of rage Of petulance and impotent Consumed with frenzied tidal waves of The princess falls to earth in sedation
Her blindness stunts the of nascent power That grows within her like poisonous flower The blade of darkness her to the hilt And so the flower begins to wilt But time is short for to be taken No chance to dwell on 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 overthrow my wicked And me to the pit of time Cast me to the flames shalt bar the doors of hell Incant these of sacred rule me in my crimson cell
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And thus was the incantation echoed round and round The woman smiled in weak Mesmerized inside the
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And with these chants of lore So mortal flesh to fade Soon child and mother were no Their earthly now decayed
me to the crimson flames Thou shalt bar the doors of these words of sacred rule Seal me in my crimson
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And inside the chamber stands A cell with crimson hue by spoken word of Man Imbued with power from spiritual Two souls for eternity and dark forever bound Two souls that never can be A pathway back not be found For trapped beyond some reach And far away prying eyes
No channel now to lead or No chance to or guide The sacrifice she took Ensured the hope of the human And thus she holds the book A in her crimson space
Lest bitterness and chaos be the harvest they wouldst For she must never waken from Crimson Sleep
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