Let no man breach the to this most blasphemous of halls Lest and chaos be the harvest they wouldst reap He n'er become a slave to this Child's beck and call For she must never waken from her Sleep.. The monastery towering above the ruined city It shadowed all the new emerging settlements and To down on the ruins was to sympathize and pity All the suffering and heartache, all the and broken bones For buried a testament to the evil of a queen A misery spread across a weak and stricken land The crimson birth swamped the earth in dark and deadly dreams And all mankind did bow beneath the power of her
And in the monastery garden sat a with a book A that 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 wavered on the of a dangerous decision For this dark tome was no for human to ever read The pages dripped with legions of words and visions So the volume had been hidden well, but now it had freed
For no reason had the woman been drawn in Perhaps it was a twist of fate, an of real thought She to a room that before she'd never been And all at once the interest of her had been caught For no apparent reason had the been drawn in Where rows of dusty lay in an ominous display
But one leather binding had the grain of human skin And seized with she stole this book away
And now she sat alone in the of the night She was hungry now to liberate the writings their cage The glimmer of a feeble moon provided her light As she up the cover and began to read the page Fly, soul, the guest, Upon impish arrant Let none be by false confession Truth shall be warrant Fly for your body must die
But for who seek eternity For those who yearn From single act of sanity Will raise you far humanity
Oh host who doth not know The full desire of prisoner You walk where fear to go Thou shalt soon embrace the Thy halo of glory, true gage May prove to be an evil
Something had happened beyond her A moment of madness a soul That would relish a denied once before By a desperate nation it's back to the wall Within a split of reading this text The spirit was and had fled from its nest It was eager to grow from this sudden And in the woman a life was conceived From the beginning the world was As a baby was in a monastery bed The miracle happening here on Earth Was perceived as a glorious new Birth
From the in time that baby was born The sun did now on a new Crimson dawn And the just bided its time undiscovered So safe in the cradling of the mother
Dan]
But for who seek eternity For those who yearn From this single act of Will raise you far above
Secure from the world, the child remained A serpent in the Garden of Eden And all who looked down on this born babe Were ignorant now of the path this take The people were blind to the subtle was exercised daily upon every soul With no room to question this life All fears would be drowned and all doubts be stifled
But one single mind did stand out the crowd Though quiet at - with hardly a sound The Mother harbored suspicion Brought to her heart by three simple
Visions:]
The first was a planet by the sea No dry in sight, not a mountain or tree No rock jutted out from the endless Or flowers to mark out the of seasons
No animals in the forests or fields All was extinct; its fate had been sealed
By the of a violent unstoppable flood had been drowned in an ocean of blood
The revelation was vivid and cruel It depicted two engrossed in a duel The one held a that was silver and pure The a sword that was red to the core
fought as the sun rose high in the sky Their fight would not end until one of died No room did they have for an error to For the of life was the trophy at stake
But one of the warriors the rules And with cunning and guile had the other one As he held up his 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 sliced through and bone
All day did the swordsman attack halt Though the other lay dead the frenzied assault by the twilight and all that remained Were the echoes of death and a fresh crimson
And so the third of these unyielding visions A picture of war and divisions An army of saviors as one Aware the end had already begun
arrived in a field, which was wide and expansive They waited in silence both ready and The grassland was strewn with crimson petals Their fragrance was sweet with the stench of the
And but surely they fell into sleep Their consciousness gone as they in defeat And there they still lie bereft of willpower Brought to their knees by the strength of a
The three visions, the Mother bore A bitter forewarning of what was in This infant so frail must not to be strong The world was at risk if she waited too So veiled by the of night she did creep And enter where and child were both asleep And she moved to where the crib lay She leant over the baby and to pray She prayed for forgiveness for what she do She prayed that the knife in her would aim true But all of a she was now paralyzed The baby had opened her eyes
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And those eyes, the woman gazed The in her face was both haunted and crazed She was smothered and in confusion and sadness The first to be gripped by this foul crimson This brutal could not be explained No one cause was suggested or blamed But no one could think that a child was And the mystery remained unresolved
So all seemed as normal for seven years A veil of dissolved any fears But there was one lapse in the disguise And could be seen in the depths of her eyes
The message clearly be discovered there In the glimpse of the universe in her stare Her gaze hypnotic, strong were growing, it wouldn't be long Oh willing host who doth not The desire of this prisoner You where angels fear to go Thou soon embrace the reckoner
Now and a question would be raised Strong misgivings threatened to be But were judgments wiser not to say To doubt the could 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 head The in her darkest moment knew The time had come for to be taken
A journey must be made to hidden She must return and read again the she had forsaken
This 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, then powerless be Bereft of piercing vision, her victims will be
lies in banishing this creature to the dark Let not your hand be or death will be your mark Lest regained sight should her flight away from burning hell A steady heart must seal her back within her cell
And thou who didst release this most enemy Must serve to be her warder for all eternity
One quiet the lady traveled out beyond the monastery Her quest was one of and human preservation She with companions to reach the ruined city Where lay the means to save her kind, a path to salvation 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 next 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 must never waken her Crimson Sleep:
Mike]
With 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 drained and all around the glass lay shattered
A movement in the A flash of light The child stood them murder in her eyes The ran towards her To try to stem the Of purse and anger There was nowhere to hide Too slow was their They were thrown back off feet Their throats were filled panic As they as harsh defeat Too weak was their couldn't staunch the trail Of vitriol and out for this betrayal So the mother's brave Consumed with damning Died writhing in the They bleeding and insane They'd looked into the eyes And in despair From images too For human minds to Salvation in banishing This creature to the Let not hand be hesitant Or will be your mark" But there was still one single No for fear or doubt The mother knew there was no She had to end now
She across the bloodstained ground Her eyes averted the steely glare But she knew she'd found A way beyond this
Simon/Mike]
A few more spanned the path success or damnation Mankind face the aftermath speed Of this deadly Got to strike for the the monster running blind Go to the line Got to strike for unforgiving eyes
She veiled with trivial thought A of insignificance Her failed to see beyond The of irrelevance
For a moment were face to face No sign of was soon to be But still her mind refused to Those thoughts must not be Got to for the eyes Leave the monster running Go to the line Got to strike for unforgiving eyes
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hard, striking fast in desperation The world around is filled shades of red Forced to stand in anticipation As rivulets of blood run down the head The chamber fills with screams of rage Of petulance and frustration with frenzied tidal waves of hate The princess to earth in dark sedation
Her blindness stunts the growth of power That grows her like some poisonous flower The blade of strikes her to the hilt And so the flower begins to wilt But time is short for to be taken No to dwell on pity or mistakes No chance for dark excuses to be The of Salvation must be now!
Cast me to the crimson Thou hast the power should I be To my wicked reign And throw me to the pit of Cast me to the crimson Thou bar the doors of hell these words of sacred rule Seal me in my crimson
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And thus was read the Voices echoed and round The woman smiled in elation Mesmerized inside the
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And with these chants of lore So mortal began to fade Soon child and were no more Their earthly now decayed
Cast me to the crimson Thou shalt bar the of hell Incant these words of sacred Seal me in my crimson
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And still inside the chamber A cell with crimson hue by spoken word of Man Imbued with power from Truth Two souls for eternity and dark forever bound Two that never can be freed A pathway will not be found For beyond some foolish reach And far away from prying
No channel now to or preach No chance to influence or The final she took Ensured the hope of the human And she holds the sacred book A in her crimson space
Lest bitterness and chaos be the harvest they wouldst For she must never waken this Crimson Sleep
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