Let no man breach the to this most blasphemous of halls Lest bitterness and chaos be the they wouldst reap He must n'er become a slave to this Child's and call For she must never waken from her Sleep.. The monastery stood towering the ruined city It shadowed all the new emerging settlements and To look on the ruins was to sympathize and pity All the and heartache, all the graves and broken bones For buried a testament to the evil of a queen A misery that spread a weak and stricken land The crimson birth that swamped the earth in dark and deadly And all did bow beneath the power of her hand
And in the monastery garden sat a with a book A manuscript that lay within her and trembling arms She looked her nervously as guilt rose in her heart But the sway of curiosity had her out too far
She wavered on the of a dangerous decision For this dark tome was no for eyes to ever read The pages dripped with of persuasive words and visions So the volume had hidden well, but now it had been freed
For no apparent reason had the woman been in Perhaps it was a twist of fate, an absence of thought She wandered to a room that before she'd never And all at once the of her senses had been 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 grain of human And seized with curiosity she stole this book
And now she sat alone in the concealment of the She was hungry now to liberate the writings from their The glimmer of a moon provided her with light As she up the cover and began to read the page Fly, soul, the guest, Upon your arrant Let none be guiled by false Truth shall be warrant Fly for your body must die
But for those who eternity For who yearn prosperity From this single act of raise you far above humanity
Oh willing host who doth not The full desire of prisoner You walk where fear to go Thou shalt soon the reckoner Thy halo of glory, hope's true May prove to be an pilgrimage
Something had beyond her control A moment of madness unfettered a That would relish a freedom denied before By a desperate nation with it's to the wall Within a split of reading this text The spirit was free and had fled its nest It was eager to grow this sudden reprieve And thus in the a life was conceived From the beginning the was misled As a was born in a monastery bed The miracle happening on this Earth Was perceived as a new Virgin Birth
the moment in time that 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 eternity For those who yearn this single act of sanity Will raise you far above
Secure from the world, the remained hidden A serpent disguised in the of Eden And all who looked down on newly born babe ignorant now of the path this would take The people were blind to the subtle That was exercised daily upon every With no room to this delicate life All fears would be drowned and all doubts be stifled
But one single mind did stand out the crowd Though quiet at first - with hardly a The Mother Superior suspicion Brought to her heart by simple vision
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The first was a planet by the sea No dry in sight, not a mountain or tree No rock jutted out from the horizon Or flowers to mark out the changing of
No dwelt in the forests or fields All life was its fate had been sealed
By the curse of a violent unstoppable Mankind had drowned in an ocean of blood
The revelation was vivid and cruel It two swordsmen engrossed in a duel The one held a sword that was and pure The a sword that was red to the core
They fought as the sun rose in the sky Their fight would not end until one of 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 up his hands in a gesture of peace The opponent allowed this retreat
Then the man with the red attacked from behind Left the silver sword fighter and blind Then carnage that no man could condone As the bloody red blade through sinew and bone
All day did the swordsman attack halt Though the other lay from the frenzied assault Until by the twilight and all that Were the echoes of death and a crimson stain
And so came the third of unyielding visions A picture of war and ferocious An army of marching as one Aware the end had already begun
They in a field, which was wide and expansive They waited in silence ready and pensive The grassland was strewn with small crimson Their fragrance was sweet with the of the devil
And slowly but surely fell into sleep Their consciousness as they slumped in defeat And there they still lie bereft of willpower Brought to their knees by the of a flower
The three visions, the Mother bore A bitter forewarning of what was in This infant so 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 over 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 she was now paralyzed The daughter had opened her eyes
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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 by this foul crimson madness brutal psychosis could not be explained No one single cause was or blamed But no one could think that a child was And the mystery illness remained
So all as normal for seven short years A veil of deception dissolved any 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 glimpse of the found in her stare Her gaze hypnotic, unbearably were growing, it wouldn't be long Oh willing who doth not know The desire of this prisoner You where angels fear to go shalt soon embrace the reckoner
Now and then a question would be Strong threatened to be voiced But were judgments wiser not to say To doubt the child could prove to be a rash and deadly By now the Crimson reign had too much The monastery was shadowed under But fear decreed hostile thoughts be crushed For the creature had the power to crawl your head The mother in her moment knew The had come for action to be taken
A journey must be made to hidden She must return and read again the she had forsaken
This tome many further views Essential rules of were revealed And thus the pages offered up one The child bore one Archilles Heel the Crimson Queen be blinded, then powerless she'll be Bereft of piercing vision, her victims be free
Salvation in banishing this creature to the dark Let not hand be hesitant or death will be your mark Lest regained sight speed her flight away from burning hell A steady heart must seal her back within her crimson
And who didst release this most vindictive enemy Must serve to be her warder there for all
One quiet night the traveled out beyond the monastery Her was one of urgency and human preservation She traveled with companions to reach the ruined Where lay the means to save her kind, a path to their When there they searched for evidence of where the Queen once And upon a gateway, which was tightly closed and barred A stark inscription warned them of the risk of their step But were no more; they had already come too far
Let no man breach the gate to 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 her Crimson Sleep:
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With fresh resolve the women carried on towards their And found themselves a cell where crimson were scattered A sight so dreadful it chilled very souls The cell had long been drained and all around the lay shattered
A in the shadows A flash of blazing The child before them murder in her eyes The ran towards her To try to stem the Of purse and anger was nowhere left to hide Too was their reaction They thrown back off their feet Their throats filled with panic As stared as harsh defeat Too was their protection They staunch the trail Of and vengeance Meted out for betrayal So the mother's brave Consumed with damning Died writhing in the They were and insane looked into the child's eyes And in despair images too hideous For human to bear Salvation lies in This to the dark Let not your hand be Or will be your mark" But there was one single hope No room for fear or The mother knew was no choice She had to end now
She across the bloodstained ground Her eyes from the steely glare But she knew she'd found A way beyond this
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A few more seconds the path success or damnation Mankind would face the speed Of this confrontation Got to for the eyes the monster running blind Go to cross the Got to strike for those eyes
She veiled with trivial thought A of insignificance Her failed to see beyond The fabric of
For a moment they were to face No of what was soon to be But still her mind to break Those must not be seen Got to strike for the Leave the monster blind Go to cross the Got to strike for those eyes
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Striking hard, striking in desperation The world around is filled with of red Forced to in weak anticipation As rivulets of blood run the Child's head The chamber fills screams of violent rage Of petulance and frustration Consumed with frenzied tidal of hate The princess falls to 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 begins to wilt But is short for action to be taken No chance to on pity or mistakes No chance for excuses to be found The of Salvation must be now!
Cast me to the crimson Thou the power should I be blind To overthrow my wicked And me to the pit of time Cast me to the crimson Thou shalt bar the of hell Incant these of sacred rule Seal me in my crimson
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And thus was the incantation Voices round and round The woman smiled in weak inside the sounds
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And with these chants of higher So mortal flesh to fade Soon child and were no more Their bodies now decayed
Cast me to the flames Thou bar the doors of hell Incant these words of sacred Seal me in my cell
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And still the chamber stands A single cell with hue Resealed by spoken of Man Imbued power from spiritual Truth Two souls imprisoned for and dark forever bound Two that never can be freed A pathway back will not be For trapped beyond some foolish And far away from eyes
No channel now to or preach No to influence or guide The final she took Ensured the of the human race And thus she holds the sacred A in her crimson space
Lest bitterness and chaos be the harvest wouldst reap For she must never waken from this Sleep
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