Dying Young

 Clouds like ragged breath

Agonized souls

Wasteland of fatigue

Dark insensible beasts

Savage howls of the wind

The allure quickens my blood

From the sea to the sea

Rituals weigh my ankles

Light is failing

Beginnings and endings

Deadly magic

Drums is my heartbeat

Ruthless

Indestructible

In a flash

The drums stop

The wind stills

Endings and no beginnings

The pyre glows

From embers to ashes

A pocket watch

Stops ticking

Time is still

Silent

Blowing like a hurricane

A thud quickens my heart

The sun and the moon are

Jewels in the evening sky

And they return to me

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Crimson Tide

 The Moon was full and brave

Moving across the sky

Like a whisper

Wet sand reflecting the moon

The Sea is tumultuous

She came in with the tide

Broke free from the ocean

Like a Small boat

in an uncertain sea

She is the only one

Like a Bird in a gale

The Wind steals my voice

Roars in my ears

I spring into the air

I am flying

The current is pushing me

into the surf

Mysterious powerful

Magic like a hum inside my ears

Screaming I am still alive

Beneath the moonlights

Clouds scatter

Something Wild

Ancient between us

Pinned by her touch

I try to break free

She is the ocean

She is the breeze in my lungs

The rise and fall of my chest

The pulse in my veins

She is life itself

Alluring like a whispered song

Like a crimson tide

A flame

Once she releases her touch

I explode

I become one with the ocean

Sea foam is my mane

I am just a drop

That turned the entire ocean red

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Fever

 Fever is coursing

through my veins

Burning my soul

Death throes

Is at hand

A plea for death

Escapes my lips

Wind makes a muted scream

Like someone dying out of sight

Danger sings on the breeze

Water frothing white

My vision explodes

In thousand colors

She is wailing

her hunger and desire

Her wicked thoughts

Her name was written in blood

Across the waves

She hesitates

Enough to give hope

Then she transforms

Into a huntress

Her insatiable desire

For my blood

For my burning lips

Her flames strive higher

Tangled with the night

Hallucinations

Nightmares

Chills

Torment

She is inside my soul

Eating away at my heart

Scorching my brain

Burning my lungs

Shattering my hopes

For survival

Her legacy is death

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Betryal

Fire child
Angry spirit of fury
Rise from the northern ashes
Rivers of molten light
Rocks are stained with red
Stars dispersed
Flames licked the sky
Danced around mountain tops

The Beast of Fire
Mountains of eternal Ice
The aurora sparkles
In the northern shores of death
Within me was darkness
Ancient as the earth
A Glimmer of talons
A flutter of wings

My home is forest
My home is Mountain
My shrine is ice
The Starlight is my gaze
Fuming with rage
The light I breathed
Shrank to the size of stars
My teeth are gnashing
My claws are swords
My wings are hurricanes

The Betrayal
Beckoning Me from the shadows
Myriads of arrows are driven home
My blood spatters
Colors the darkness
Brighter than the Aurora
Brighter than the sun
My breath is the wind
Scorching hot
Bloody whispers
When my heart is torn
And I fall from the sky
I explode into shards
of ice and fire
Cover the face of earth
With starlight
Join the night a Star

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Drowning

Today someone will die

Stumbling into darkness
Winded
Trembling
Defeated
A Silhouette in the night

Today someone will die
Sky and water mirror images
Sea foaming, roiling
The song of water is alluring
Predatory
Elegant

Sea turns to black
violent waves crashing against
the craggy shores
A gap in my soul opens
It is filled with water
Gust of winds in my hair
The foam is filling my lungs
They get heavier
The struggle is artful
Sweet
A blessed union
Sky, water and man
are now mirror images
Blending
Fading into darkness
Today
Someone had died

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Evanescence

 Evanescence

It will evanesce
There is no place
In my heart
For a new love
It is full of death
And the remanence
Of ancient magic
Frozen in time
Howl of fires
Sea roils with death
Tapestry of images unspools before me
I can't stop what is coming
Succumb to pain
It is time
I see a mortal before me
He will evanesce
World must be broken
before it is remaid
The world will burn
Reborn from the ashes
It rages on in my dreams
Unearthly rumble
comes from my throat
It will not hurt forever
Wind blows cold and brittle
Chilling my bones
World will not be spared
from predation
It will evanesce

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The Beast

 

Night shores of death welcome me with open arms

Pain is a Beast that takes ethereal forms

Crouches on my chest, suffocates the air

In my lungs, they burn, I cannot bear

That this day was the beginning and the End

Alone, broken heart no one could mend

Death is here I am ready to embrace

The comforting freedom I could not find in this place

My sleep is dreamless on the nether world plains

Smoke and dust in endless darkness I remain

I burn with wrath, an indestructible heart

Is the cynical joke I could not outsmart

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Wings of Death

His wings beat at the bars of a cage

Bloody and bruised, yet full of rage

Crimson colors the merciless bars

Pain throbs in his thousand scars

Midnight shrouds the searing sun

Dark thoughts he could not shun

He contemplates his impending end

The bars of the cage refuse to bend

He calls for death in a glorious tune

Like a Wolf howling to the moon

A prayer he sent to the gods, a plea

To take his soul so he would be free

No god or man came to his aid

His inner strength is his only trade

Pain scorched his wing, seared his heart

More determined to split the cage apart

The bars broke, they pierced his chest

Blood soaked his feathers, his crest

Heavens became his refuge, his nest

In the arms of Death he found his rest

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Child of Snow and Fire

The beast inside me raged

The spilled blood spoke

Death is merely a change

A greater voyage

Into the heart of fury

A bird cage opened in my chest

The trapped Phoenix has flown away

From the ashes of my dreams

From my unraveling mind

My cries made the stars bleed

My mind summoned flames

Kneeling in the snow

I extinguished my fire

My breath came out in white wispy clouds

Voices soared on the wind

 Spoke of sacrifice

Spoke of light and dreams

A mausoleum to vanished world

I found my voice

Whispered shadows became an image

I was a child again

I untied my hair

It formed stardust

Did not feel the cold any more

For I was Fire

I was Fury

I was flame

And I was burning

in the moonlight snow

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Nightmare

Black of my dreams faded to grey

The bitter path wherein I stray

Destiny lay swift in my hands

My hair turned to frosty strands

Trickle of whispers ancient, old

Had turned my touch icy cold

My voice, agony cloaked in pride

Shadows feeding where blooms abide

A vortex erupts with every shuddering breath

Swallows me into the deep belly of death

Shadows spiraled into my soul like a dream

Awakened by my own dying scream

I see my life before me, veiled from afar

Like a maiden in white crowned in stars

Shadows creep to engulf her, twisted snarled

The beast inside me roared and snarled

Fearless, I cross the veil that splits apart

Life from death, shadows pierced my heart

She beckons me, I am chained to the past

I follow her, with troubled eyes, aghast

A Scent forgotten, magic perfumed the air

It gently woke me from my sweet despair

I saw the paddles pressed to my chest

The fairy nurse was doing her best

To revive the heart that was still with pain

That it might beat and quiver again

 

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Knight

When darkness whispers softly to me

Powers of drowning thoughts gently be

Accursed shadow like foam of the sea

Binds me to death, my courage sets me free

 

My spirit immortal, no tomb can ever bind

The endless glory for which I have pined

Eyes with blood and tears rendered blind

Haunted with memories shall come unconfined

 

The gaping seasons around me scatter and run

Like an eagle that soars to the dazzling sun

I rise to glory, timeless my voyage has begun

To accomplish what no mortal before me has done

 

I kneel, I rise a Knight, with a sword and a bow

I strike at injustice, with might, a single blow

Transforms the darkness, the cold into a glow

I am part of the Eternal, which I must bestow

 

On whoever conquers the darkness, arise

Join my legions, soar toward the endless skies

Fate bows to me, my strength never wanes or dies

Tyrants, beware, I will herald your demise

 

I hold the spear, I am the dauntless knight

My rage against the flickers of your dying light

Outsoars the shadows, transforms the fading night

And that unrest which men miscall delight

 

I am the Hunter; I slay tyrants with no fear

I shoot my arrows, I plunge the spear

Tales of my glory spread loud and clear

Beware of my fury, your end is near

 

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