[I - The words] [II - - Passage of time] [IV - The threat] [V - Archilles [VI - Covenant of [VII - to face] - Disintegration] [IX -
Let no man breach the gate to this most of halls Lest bitterness and chaos be the harvest they reap He must n'er become a to this Child's beck and call For she must never from her Crimson Sleep.. The stood towering above the ruined city It all the new emerging settlements and homes To down on the ruins was to sympathize and pity All the suffering and heartache, all the and broken bones For buried there a to the evil of a queen A misery spread across a weak and stricken land The crimson birth that swamped the in dark and deadly dreams And all mankind did bow beneath the of her hand
And in the monastery sat a woman with a book A manuscript lay within her frail and trembling arms She looked around her nervously as guilt rose in her But the of curiosity had drawn her out too far
She on the threshold of a dangerous decision For this tome was no for human eyes to ever read The pages dripped legions of persuasive words and visions So the volume had been hidden well, but now it had freed
For no apparent reason had the woman been in it was a twist of fate, an absence of real thought She wandered to a room that she'd never been And all at once the interest of her senses had caught For no apparent reason had the been drawn in Where of dusty books lay in an ominous display
But one ancient leather binding had the of human skin And seized with curiosity she stole 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 began to the page Fly, soul, the guest, Upon impish arrant Let none be guiled by false Truth shall be your Fly soul for your body die
But for those who eternity For those who prosperity this single act of sanity Will raise you far humanity
Oh host who doth not know The full desire of this You walk where angels to go Thou soon embrace the reckoner Thy halo of glory, hope's gage May prove to be an evil
Something had beyond her control A moment of madness unfettered a That would relish a denied once before By a desperate nation with back to the wall Within a split second of reading text The spirit was free and had fled from its It was eager to grow from this reprieve And in the woman a life was conceived the beginning the world was misled As a baby was in a monastery bed The miracle here on this Earth Was as a glorious new Virgin Birth
From the moment in time that baby was The sun did now rise on a new dawn And the creature just bided its undiscovered So safe in the arms of the mother
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But for those who eternity For who yearn prosperity this single act of sanity Will raise you far above
from the world, the child remained hidden 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 subtle That was daily upon every soul With no to question this delicate life All fears would be drowned and all doubts would be
But one single mind did stand out the crowd quiet at first - with hardly a sound The Mother Superior harbored 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 jutted out the endless horizon Or to mark out the changing of seasons
No dwelt in the forests or fields All life was its fate had been sealed
By the curse of a violent flood Mankind had been drowned in an ocean of
The revelation was vivid and cruel It depicted two swordsmen in a duel The one held a that was silver and pure The other a sword was red to the core
fought as the sun rose high in the sky Their fight would not end until one of them No did they have for an error to make For the future of life was the at stake
But one of the flouted the rules And with and guile 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 silver sword defeated and blind Then carnage ensued no man could condone As the bloody red blade sliced through and bone
All day did the swordsman without halt Though the other lay from the frenzied assault Until by the twilight and all remained Were the echoes of death and a fresh stain
And so came the third of unyielding visions A of war and ferocious divisions An army of saviors as one Aware that the end had already
They in a field, which was wide and expansive They waited in both ready and pensive The was strewn with small crimson petals Their fragrance was sweet with the of the devil
And slowly but surely they fell into Their consciousness gone as slumped in defeat And there they lie bereft of their willpower Brought to their knees by the of a flower
The visions, the Mother Superior bore A bitter forewarning of was in store This so frail must not grow to be strong The world was at risk if she waited too So veiled by the blackness of night she did And enter where mother and child were asleep And onwards she to where the crib lay She leant over the baby and started to She prayed for forgiveness for what she do She prayed that the knife in her hand would aim 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 in her face was both haunted and crazed She was smothered and swamped in and sadness The first to be gripped by this foul madness brutal psychosis could not be explained No one cause was suggested or blamed But no one think that a child was involved And the mystery remained unresolved
So all seemed as normal for seven short A veil of dissolved any fears But there was one in the child's disguise And could be seen in the depths of her eyes
The message could clearly be discovered In the of the universe found in her stare Her gaze hypnotic, unbearably were growing, it wouldn't be long Oh willing who doth not know The full desire of this You walk where angels to go shalt soon embrace the reckoner
Now and then a question be raised Strong misgivings threatened to be But were judgments wiser not to say To the child could prove to be a rash and deadly choice By now the Crimson reign had proved too The monastery was under dread But fear that hostile thoughts be crushed For the creature had the power to crawl your head The mother in her darkest knew The had come for action to be taken
A journey be made to hidden truths She return and read again the book she had forsaken
This tome presented many further Essential of power were revealed And thus the pages up one clue The bore one significant Archilles Heel Should the Queen be blinded, then powerless she'll be Bereft of piercing vision, her will be free
Salvation lies in banishing this to the dark Let not your hand be or death will be your mark Lest regained should speed her flight away from burning hell A steady heart must seal her back within her crimson
And thou who didst release this vindictive enemy Must serve to be her there for all eternity
One quiet night the lady traveled out beyond the Her quest was one of and human preservation She traveled companions to reach the ruined city Where lay the to save her kind, a path to their salvation When they searched for evidence of where the Queen once slept And came a gateway, which was tightly closed and barred A stark warned them of the risk of their next step But were no more; they had already come too far
Let no man breach the to this most blasphemous of halls Lest and chaos be the harvest they wouldst reap He must n'er become a slave to this Child's and call For she must never waken from her Crimson
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fresh resolve the women carried on towards their goal And found themselves a where crimson shade were scattered A so dreadful it chilled their very souls The cell had long been drained and all around the glass lay
A movement in the A flash of light The child stood them With in her eyes The women ran her To try to stem the Of purse and crimson There was nowhere left to Too slow was their They thrown back off their feet Their throats were filled with As they as harsh defeat Too was their protection They couldn't staunch the Of vitriol and Meted out for this So the mother's compatriots Consumed damning pain Died writhing in the They bleeding and insane They'd into the child's eyes And crumbled in From images too For human to bear Salvation in banishing This creature to the Let not your be hesitant Or death 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 across the bloodstained ground Her eyes averted from the steely But secretly she knew she'd A way beyond this
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A few more spanned the path Between success or would face the aftermath speed Of deadly confrontation Got to for the eyes the monster running blind Go to the line Got to strike for those eyes
She herself with trivial thought A of insignificance Her daughter failed to see The of irrelevance
For a moment they were face to No of what was soon to be But still her mind to break thoughts must not be seen Got to for the eyes Leave the running blind Go to cross the Got to for those unforgiving eyes
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Striking hard, striking in desperation The around is filled with shades of red Forced to in weak anticipation As rivulets of blood run down the Child's The chamber fills with of violent rage Of petulance and impotent Consumed with frenzied tidal of hate The princess falls to earth in sedation
Her blindness the growth of nascent power That within her like some poisonous flower The blade of darkness her to the hilt And so the flower begins to wilt But time is short for action to be No chance to dwell on or mistakes No for dark excuses to be found The moment of Salvation be now!
Cast me to the flames hast the power should I be blind To overthrow my reign And throw me to the pit of Cast me to the crimson Thou shalt bar the doors of Incant these words of rule Seal me in my crimson
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And thus was read the Voices echoed and round The woman smiled in weak inside the sounds
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And with these of higher lore So mortal flesh to fade child and mother were no more Their bodies now decayed
Cast me to the flames Thou shalt bar the of hell Incant these words of rule Seal me in my crimson
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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 for eternity and dark forever bound Two souls that can be freed A pathway back will not be For trapped some foolish reach And far away prying eyes
No channel now to lead or No chance to or guide The final she took Ensured the hope of the race And thus she holds the sacred A in her crimson space
bitterness and chaos be the harvest they wouldst reap For she must waken from this Crimson Sleep
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