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The Red Queens
Rivers flow in crimson streams
with blood a thousand-fold
and tears of the blackened damned
Seared demon mists
roil from the wormy earth
blown on brimstone winds
Can you hear them call?
Can you hear them laugh?
The Red Queens walk tonight
Spirits claw from beneath their
graves,
born again with baneful verve
from cracking bones and rancid
flesh
And while they howl their spite
toward this forlorn night,
they scurry to heed the summons
Can you hear them call?
Can you hear them shriek?
The Red Queens walk tonight
The Red Queens stalk the night
~*~
Fifty
Fathoms Deep
Stygian
squelch and salty brine
where
the carrion fall to slumber
Inky
black and a wet drowned hell
with
the monsters coloured umber
It’s
where I live
Fifty
fathoms deep
The
raven grave and eternal abyss
for
ships that sunk from battle
flesh
picked clean and washed away
Nothing
left but a dead bone rattle
It’s
where I live
Fifty
fathoms deep
It’s
submerged tears of last regrets
in
the face of your abandoned faith
Whispers
and screams come empty
in
the home of the devil’s wraith
It’s
where I died,
and
rose again
Fifty
fathoms deep
~*~
Shadow’s
Breath
One
breath
quantum
shadow of your life
One
breath
held
shallow inside the night
One
breath
clutching
back your last scream
One
breath
scratching
against your neck
One
breath is all you have left
~*~
Hellfire Moon
Upon the dead man’s hour
cradled by the graveyard wind,
sulphurous and dank,
the Hellfire Moon unfurls
Crimson glare, cast down
over shrivelled trees
dripping charcoal ichor,
as blasphemous tongues
spew virgin blood and lies
Along the shadow’s path
creep the legged beasts
their barbs so sharp and ready
The Hellfire Moon commands
their minds, their thoughts
they will bring you to your doom
~*~
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