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All of these poems are written by Henry, unless I have written explicitly to say who I wrote it collaboratively with. I hope you enjoy them.
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War and Peace (Sonnet 1, written by Henry and Matthew Ashton)
Death
Witches' Truth
Asaru's Love
Eternal Winter
The Castle and The Room
This Ghastly Expanse
Thank You, Bringers of this Dead Land
威卡的教規 (The Wiccan Rede in Chinese, translated by me)
Freedom of Mind and Soul
Graceful Halcyon
Ceremony of Darkness
Cold, Silent Tears
My Soul, My Life
The Truth
Ascension
Deserted Child - Little Waif
Evil from the Devil Sent
Blind Man's Path
We Forget
From Wood to Stone
Alban Heruin
There's No Return
A Vision Lost
A Demon-Angel
My Heart Goes On: Sunset
My Heart Goes On: Night
I'll Come Back, I Swear
The Vampires Shall Prevail
Circle
Hypocrites
Life of Liberty
Meditation
Hear No Evil
Wandering Spirit
I Can't Go On
Forever Damned
Banished Forevermore
Everlasting
The End
History of an Elven Land
Purples, Blacks and Blues
Samhain
Intrigue
Padriac
Regret
Winterboy
Insomnia
War and Peace (Sonnet 1, written by
me and Matthew Ashton)
Two worlds both alike with bitter hatred
From calm peace to a world of shattered dreams
Such a crime to break something so sacred
To watch this bond dismantled at the seams
To see these sufferers doomed forever
Innocent and evil, all shall perish
Is this evitable? I say never
Priceless life removed, the thing we cherish
Whereas peace preserves the serenity
War, terrifying war, brings destruction
So what do you think, love or enmity?
One brings obstruction, other creation
With harmony, they flourish and rejoice
War is death. Now go speak aloud your voice.
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Death
Dark cave of doom and death
Where screams are never heard
No matter how much you thrash
To the darkest valley you shall go
Where all horrors and nightmares
Come alive and true
Such terrible fear, so real
But absolutely unstoppable
Praying and praying to no avail
Silent howls of pain and fear
But deafening screeches of torture
Omnipresent and incessant
Insidiously converting you to gloom
The religion where all hope is lost
Hopelessly lost in the Stygian crevice
Until
The light pierces the clouds
All is well, the saviour returns
Gliding as an angel pure and white
Embracing you in warmth and love
Until
.
.
.
.
.
.
The shroud of light is broken
And the knife, cold and sharp
Pierces the delicate white skin
Delving into the soft pink flesh
And searing the tubes of incarnadine fluid
Feel the life drain away once more
Wish a better life had been led by thee?
Well now, it is time to repay your sins
There's no-one to pray for you, to care for you
So succumb to your well-earned torture
A lifetime of crime was what you wished
But now, welcome to the land of doom
One where the satanic daemons rule
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Witches' Truth
A locket of treasures hidden away
But to no-one they will ever dare say
In fear the persecutors shall come
In masses, with weapons and feet-a-drum
During these times of witches' genocide
All wise men and women must go and hide
Taking away their secrets of herb lore
Tightly fastened in their own human door
Falsely and cruelly accused of bad deeds
To the power of the Devil, she feeds
Or so they say, but instead they aid you
The cycle of the Earth, they follow through
To the right path, they always stay true
But to others, it is seen as taboo
Try as you may, but to no avail
They will come down like hammer on nail
They come crashing in, wood flies everywhere
Such wonderful structures, it isn't fair
Without a word, they grab hold of her arms
They have no care, they don't care if it harms
Flailing and shaking, they cling much harder
Causing havoc from bedroom to larder
Out into the dirt streets, she is flung
With angry mobs saying that she should be hung
Brandishing every manner of weapons
She struggles free and with all power runs
The waves of weapons come crashing forwards
With immense power like Biblical floods
Once again she is bound up so tightly
Hoisted up roughly, they show her no mercy
Lifted above their heads, like some dead pig
Led into the square, where there is the rig
Which will take her to her unjustly death
Tied onto the stake, she breathes her last breath
The fire is lit, and she is engulfed
She screams and shouts, but her voice is muffled
Under the roar of the cruel, foul crowd
Until she is by death's envelope shroud
A locket of treasures hidden away
When will they be free? When will be the day?
Will they be accepted as good friends?
Please tell me the day when all this shall end
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Asaru's Love
Glistening tears decorate the night
A watchful eye looks down
Creatures asleep beneath the light
And in peaceful dreams they drown
All but one is missing sleep
He just cannot get to rest
He has thoughts that delve down deep
But another emotion does protest
He wishes to hold her in his arms
To stroke her soft golden hair
Then, faithfully to strip her of her garms
To be as one with the lady fair
The beast with two backs they say
But Asaru, a lonely man'll be
And to no avail, no matter how much he does pray
For his love was now dead, you see
Brutally murdered with a sword
And tragically and idiotically
By her most faithful lord
And so, Asaru, alone, cries sadly
'An unfair world this is'
He cried, as he held her close
'No, no. My lord. Please take this.'
A necklace he received with a beautiful rose
'I'll treasure it forever.'
He says as blood soaks the dress
Staining a dove so pure, like aether
Her hair and face, he did caress
Brightened night, that night, it was
Revealing Asaru's true emotion
For the lady, whose body was at a loss
And his faithful and lustful devotion
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Eternal Winter
Cold, white and pure
Falling
Falling like an angel
Sweet flakes drop down
In an endless spiral
Freezing cold
Biting in
Harsh snow sinking in, into your skin
Moonlight comes to shine
Upon the now fluorescent land
To show the act to all around
Forever cold, my heart shall be
Until the day I leave this prison
A place of doom and gloom
So incongruous I feel
Take me to another land
Far away from here
Carry me in your snow white chariot
Towards the light
The eternal peace
None shall hear my cry
My plea
My departure from this world
As I sail into an eternal winter
Isolated in the white expanses
Where I shall find everlasting silence
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The Castle and The Room
I look around me
There is a magnificent stone castle
Surrounded by countless trees
Known and unknown
The path is paved with round cobble stones
Bare feet mould to their shapes
Walking over towards the doorway of the castle
It begins to open
I glimpse the inside of the castle
All is dark at first
But then I see more of the beautiful stone structure
Rooms spreading away down either side
I stare in awe at the sheer beauty
Suddenly something is hovering above me
A small little room with no known pathway
I walk forward to see if there is a path
But
As soon as I move
It vanishes
I stare longingly
I blink
And I am outside
I once again look up
In search of the room which I yearn to enter
Instead, the sun appears
With a flash
The sun sets and rises multiple times
Sinning around and around
Time moves by
To the future or to the past?
I don't know
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This Ghastly Expanse
Joy withers upon the land
As the screams and tears drench the barren wilderness
Phantoms of long forgotten battles
Float aimlessly
In this ghastly expanse
Of failed dreams
Of fatal hopes
Of fruitless wishes
Happiness? What is happiness?
Upon this world where life is unheard of
Upon this world where time is still
So that horrors manifest themselves over and over
A never-ending nightmare
Neither time nor life exists
Neither time nor life ever did exist
Neither time nor life will ever exist
In this ghastly expanse where screams and tears drench
its barren wilderness
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Thank You, Bringers of this Dead Land
A year and a day of eternal rain
Fertilising, nurturing tears of the Goddess
Yet with the Lords, this paradise lost
Dead, dead forevermore
Fragments of tales solely remain
Never-ending hope, cannot be regained
Irrevocable from malpractice
Of selfish Lords, blinded by light
Dark shall be the land, forevermore
"The land that provided age old and young
The land that they called home
Thus was their choice
Thus is their repayment and suffering.
Scorchéd plains of barren deserts
Unrecognisable remains of that
Splendid stunning scene, gone
Hands of the Lords, the bringers of Hell
We have only ourselves to thank
For this dead land, forever and more
"Well done."
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威卡的教規 (The Wiccan Rede in Chinese, translated by me)
您應該相信威卡的教規﹐用誠實和真誠的愛來信
但凡事都得饒處且饒人﹐你附出多少便應得多少
由北開始畫三個圓的圈﹐把所有妖魔鬼怪全除去
如果你想咒語變成現實﹐用順序或特殊音節念出
以柔制剛切勿意氣用事﹐靜心聆聽切勿大發謀論
美麗的月亮漸漸地變圓﹐大家開開心心跳舞歌唱
每逢新月之夜都是初一﹐大家歡歡氣氣一同慶祝
每逢月圓之夜都是十五﹐大家誠心誠意來許個願
每當北風呼呼地吹來時﹐門窗要鎖好帆布要落下
每逢南風呼呼地吹來時﹐心愛的人熱情地親親你
每當西風呼呼地吹來時﹐靈魂們趁機會起來活動
每逢東風呼呼地吹來時﹐豐富的大餐迎接新開始
九種不同的樹木放入鼎﹐猛猛地燃燒慢慢地燃燒
接骨樹是代表神聖女神﹐如燒接骨樹會被追咒的
當節日輪盤開始轉動時﹐沃爾帕吉斯夜燒篝火炬
當節日輪盤轉到冬至時﹐燃點起火炬迎潘皇再生
照顧好大自然花草樹木﹐神聖女神送幸福給人們
石頭水中拋前程就可知﹐用漣漪多少遠近看前程
如果要實現願望或理想﹐絕不可貪心或不責手段
不應該浪費寶貴的時間﹐結識一些不成實的朋友
見面和離別也同樣快樂﹐面頰紅紅的心情要愉快
記緊因果關係輪回三次﹐三次幸運或是三次災難
如不幸遇到災難降臨時﹐把藍色的星星戴在頭上
人人都要做到坦誠相見﹐除非他人全心欺編真成
威卡的教規八字真言是﹐「為所欲為傷人不為」
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Freedom of Mind and Soul
999 days have died of luminous lights
Fighting against 999 cascading waves
Unique and solitary, undying
Faith, passion and trust
Believe in me, the world, the Lady
Set amongst stones
Of lustful gargoyles
Raining down from the asundered heavens
Believe and set yourself free
999 and the one alone
Believe, for her sake, believe
Surrender the land
Beckon unto yourself
Believe and set yourself free
From the chains of oppressive society
Burning under 999 hell-spawn orbs of fire
Endlessly for 333 days and nights
Fly, be free
Fight against the waves
Set yourself free
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Graceful Halcyon
Drawing down the moon
Drowning in the pale blue waters
Filled with fantastical unknown creatures
Of darkness and of light
Surrounded by the Sphere
Sphere of Andula
Sphere of Heaven
Graceful Halcyon
Vanishes the cloud
Gone be the trees
Pure, white angels descend
Angles pure, angels white
Graceful Halcyon
Break this Stygian darkness
Bring the serenity once more
Remove this saturated lands of evils
Let them see the joy, the calmness
Lost for 1000 years in these spheres
Spheres of Andulhai
Our Sphere of Andula
The city of Avayet
They city beneath the hill
Upon stands the lone figure
Wind blowing through the blond silken threads
Cloak swirls around, green and gold dance in the light
All else is gone
The glittering figure looks out
Far beyond the land
Wishing for the peace
Oh, Graceful Halcyon
Break this Stygian darkness
Bring the serenity once more
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Ceremony of Darkness
Dreams of hunger
The blood thirst waiting to be quenched
Dark lips of lust
The God of the night
Standing solemn, as the winds wrap around him
Waiting
Waiting for the one
To enter the death bed
In one last plight of love
Love
Lust
Thirst
Blood
Desire
The ceremony of darkness
The ritual of draining
The frozen points
The succulent skin
All the more, increasing the blood thirst
As they embrace
In the ceremony
Phantoms gather in the night
The souls awake to watch
This majestic sight
The ceremony of darkness
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Cold, Silent Tears
Cold, silent tears fall down your face
Dripping, removing all your grace
Insidious, creeping like the ghost of the town
Say goodbye, get rid of their frown
Torn, set as stone, looking forth in hatred
You're old, you're gone, you're dated
The black sheep in amongst the white
Leave this place, go die from your own fright
Pulling the cloak tighter as you depart
Just to find that it's not there, nor is their heart
Narrow-minded, bigots, hypocrites, weak
Minded people, no matter, no matter how much they seek
They never see the person beneath
All they can bring is grief
Years and eons, never-ending
Forever to the outside world sending
Your world is lost, vanished
Your trust in people, famished
Liberal and open-minded, they always say
However, none of us have seen the day
Cold, silent tears fall down your face
Dripping, removing all your grace
Insidious, creeping like the ghost of the town
Say goodbye, get rid of their frown
Nothing shall change their hard-set thought
They shall never understand the cruelty they wrought
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My Soul, My Life
As the world crumbles around, nothing is seen
When drowning in the green pools
Set deep within the meticulously built hills and troughs
The balloons float down
Attaching themselves unto me
Taking me up
I strive to reach down
To drown in that pool again
I cannot leave
That is my life source
I will be torn asunder
There is no way I can leave
The crashing of the rocks
Cause havoc around us
But I stay close to the pool, the hills, the troughs
Nothing is heard
The hands from the heavens grab me by my shoulders
Their nails digging deep
Yet I remain loyal, I remain there
To spend time with the beloved body of water
The body I strive to protect
To save it from destruction
To save myself from my own death
The fairies are there to guide me
The creeping black upon the mirror
I heed not to it
For now, I must cherish this beauty before me
This paradise in such a hellish world
This is my destiny
This is my soul
My life
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The Truth
The folded corners of a book
The glimpse into the past
Someone just like you
Sat there reading the same novel
Seeing the same history fleet by
Like a mirage
A dream
An illusion
But do they live the same life?
Do they read? Can they read?
Imagine, the cloud above your house
You lay upon the grass
Staring at it, an angel
No, Santa Claus
A cat, a car, a house
But have you ever thought that
That cloud would be seen a few hours later
On the other side of the world
Where they live in poverty
Struck by disasters
Tsunamis, monsoons, earthquakes
They lay upon the ground
Unable to move
Paralysed by fear
Staring at it, a death omen
No, the Devil
A knife, a truck, a long-gone home
The mirage is not there
There is no dream
Their pain and suffering is no illusion
It is the truth, reality
Hard, cold, torturous day-to-day life
That they live on endlessly
Whilst we, we have the comfort of mattresses
The convenience of technology
The gift of good fortune
Whereas they, they have nothing
Nothing.
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Ascension
Forget about the past
Look towards the future
That is where we lie
That is where we'll go
Turning back shall do no good
All we can do is to accept our fate
Be stoical, endure whatever the world throws at us
Trust in yourself
Believe in me
We'll soon be free
From these Earthly bounds
To ascend into the empyrean lands
Where the angels shall sing
The lute shall be played
The dryads shall dance
Merrily, we spin
Hair golden, bouncing with the breeze of the air
Leave the past
See the future ahead of us
That is what we can change
That is what we shall do
Turning back shall do no good
All we can do is accept our fate
Be stoical, endure whatever the sky pours on us
Trust in yourself
Believe in me
We'll soon be free
The clouds will leave
The fog shall lift
And we will be back where we should truly be
Merrily, spinning
Where the angels would sing
The harps, the lutes,
The joy and the halcyon
Shall return
With the spring in our step
The lift to our wings
So heavily burdened with the Earthly strings
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Deserted Child ¨C Little Waif
Trees are still, clouds hover
The boy looks out from the cover of the cave
Day is breaking; a corner of the cloth is alight
Slowly, first birdsong of the day begins
As he closes his eyes to listen to the dulcet sound
All alone, cold and hungry
The organs play their song
He weeps and cries, wrapping his arms around his legs
As the tears roll down his face
Deserted child ¨C little waif
The sickle sewn gracefully on the centre of the cloth
Lighting nothing in its path
Weak, when her consort arises
Yet, still the most alluring ornament upon the silk
He looks up again, eyes red with tears
Knowing not where they fount from
Yet, the inexorable sadness grips him
But out of the corner of his sore eyes
The ghostly figure of a girl materializes
Charmed by her looks, he dries his eyes
Wandering slowly forward, intrigued by the pale figure
She reaches her hand out to him
They sail through the sky, he shrieks
Then finds solitude, looking over the villages
The towns, the rivers and the seas
An empyrean delusion, a stabbing reality
As he soars across the land with the fair maiden
Rays catch the tail of the her white dress
They fall, hurtling towards the ground
She's gone, forever, until the dawn breaks again
Every day he dies again
Every night he relives
All alone, cold and hungry
The organs play their song
He weeps and cries, wrapping his arms around his legs
As the tears roll down his face
Deserted child ¨C little waif
Every day he dies again
Every night he relives
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Evil from the Devil Sent
"The sound of your voice,
The silken hair that hangs
So gently upon your shoulders
Makes it unbearable for me to part from you."
The emperor's cry, his mournful lament
This evil from the Devil sent
Inexorable lust for the fair, young maiden
Upon his heart, her fairness laden
The world is forgotten as he stares into the pools
Yet her looks and her charm doth fools
As her heart, as black as stone
Has no love for him; and him alone
The younger kin of the high lord
For her love, they fight with wit and soon their sword
"Brother of mine, thee hath stolen everything
All that I hold dear, and yet thee doth not even allow me
Allow me to have this fair maiden
Who doth not love thee so."
"I shall not hear of such insolence
I, your elder, and senior have the right
For this beauty with no questions asked
So, quench thy thirst and shut thy mouth."
Day and day, night and night they fight for her love
The beautiful maiden, the heaven's dove
She's torn to see them fight so hatefully
Yet her heart tells her that this is the true malady
That will finally settle for who does fall
Her love has them entranced, and spellbound, and enthralled
She scorns quietly at their maddened behaviour
There's no-one here that can be their saviour
For she has them tightly in her grasp, as dolls
She laughs at them, eager for one of their falls
Into her trap, into her snare
Into her ever foreseeing glare
Their doom, their future is in her claws
She shall be the one to close their doors
The destruction brings her joy
These little dolls, her little toys
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Blind Man's Path
"It's the honesty of these worlds
Ruled by magic and mighty swords
That makes my soul long for the past"
Laying awake on a summer's night
The day's events teeming around my head
Books that fill me with wonder, with grief, with joy
Makes me wonder, should I really be here?
I remember the magic, the lore
The beauty of the forests, trees swaying in the breeze
Rivers undulating merrily down the hills
Yet I feel no mirth here upon the Earth
My heart, my soul lingers elsewhere
In some far off place, leaving me lost
Alone, uncertain and incongruous
An anachronism forever stabbing
I'm lost, where's the path beneath my foot?
That I always thought I would stay upon
Where's the beacon of light at the end of the tunnel?
I'm blind to my future
Where am I to arrive?
What is my destiny?
What is the purpose, the meaning of my life?
Confused.
I lay awake last night
Thinking about this enigma, this conundrum
That has no answer, no respite for me
I must live on, plan for the small
Aspire for the big, the unknown, the magic
Yet, still my heart shall long for the past forevermore
The worlds ruled by magic and ancient lore
My original path, the Elvenpath.
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We Forget
Darkened skies and blackened oceans
Dreams are forgotten, hopes are lost
As the world crumbles, tumbles and falls
Blinded by the light, fake and tainted with evils
We forget the past; we forget where we come from
The beauty, the serenity, all shall be lost
Doom, the eternal perdition shall be the only destiny
If we follow this path
Filled with gloom, and hatred, and jealousy
Ours eyes, our minds remain lost in the light
Where the blue ocean undulates behind us
And the sky is clear with birds
We forget the glory of our world
We forget
Dreams are forgotten, hopes are lost
As these lies continue to foul our essence
Continue to mar our purity
Insidious evil, our own destruction
Our perversity shall be the end of us
Our perversity shall be our devastation
Which we shall be blind to
Lost in the light, injected with hate and grief
Ours eyes, our minds remain lost in the light
Where the blue ocean undulates behind us
And the sky is clear with birds
We forget the glory of our world
We forget
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From Wood to Stone
The magic within me wants to be set free
And flow along with the water and dance with the wind
Rise up to kiss the sun and to go down to hug the earth
A little bird in a cage and I cup her in my hands
She wants to fly, fly away to a pathway
That leads from the wood to stone
Yet I dare not let her go, I know that I am lost
I am lost without her
But all must go from wood to stone
From the circle and down the river
Travelling with the wind behind our backs
To sail on and on until the stones are seen
Standing in solemn memorial of our ancestors
The magic must soon wind away from me to follow this path
And yet I cannot let it go, it will kill me, I shall die
It runs, it flows, it goes
I follow, never letting it leave my sight
Until she stops and there she leaves
I pound the earth till my hands bleed and the ground is hard
She has gone, I'm all alone, I'm left alone
My life has gone without the bird in my hands
But all must go from wood to stone
From the circle and down the river
Travelling with the wind behind our backs
To sail on and on until the stones are seen
Standing in solemn memorial of our ancestors
I dig the earth as tears stream down my eyes
And as the heavens are torn asunder to let forth their grief
I carry the bird and her tree, in memory of her beauty
Her love she gave me, the meaning and purpose of my life
The tree shall be my gift forevermore
So that in the world apart she may remember me
So that each time she walks by
She knows this tree is for her
The waves sweep in, I'm dragged under
Following her footsteps a thousand years later
All must go from wood to stone
From the circle and down the river
Travelling with the wind behind our backs
To sail on and on until the stones are seen
Standing in solemn memorial of our ancestors
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Alban Heruin
As day meets night in equality
The Holly King awakes
Ready for the ensuing battle
Above the oceans and above the lakes
To win the seat of crown
The Faeries and the Fey attend
And through the biting cold
Joy and laughter they send
The height of the Oaken rule: Gone
Day dwindles away
Darkness creeps over
The Oaken King in the womb doth lay
We thank the Goddess and the God
For their love and kindness
The Earth is a luscious green
And soon comes in the harvest
As the bitter winters enter
Communities gather 'round a warm hearth
Tales fill the air, songs flow free
As they joke and talk with mirth
As the light streams down upon our eager faces
Upon the circles of spirituality
We thank Mother Earth and Father Sun
For our land's bounty and fertility
In the Silver Wheel
Ever spinning, ever turning
Amongst the stars
See the shimmering aurora
In the palace of Reincarnation
The goddess of the Astral Skies
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There's No Return
The fire's burning, flames dance in my eyes
Severing the cord, the bond
Reaching out with a frozen hand
Melt away into the darkness
All hope has gone
There's no return
Our love is lost in the maelstrom
Whipped away by the mischief of the Fair Folk
Gone with the winds, flow off down the river
Farewell and merry part
The candle is blown out
Time has ended and life has ceased
As the love goes off the horizon
Never to be seen again, vanished
Molten away into the light
All love has gone
There's no return
Our love is lost in the labyrinths of Greece
Whipped and thrown away by fate
Gone as the sun every dusk, as the moon every dawn
But never, never to return
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A Vision Lost
The sun is drowning, the light is fading
The rain is falling and the darkness creeping
As the girl loses the way, the beacon
Blinded, deafened and strangled
The love that was never to be
Solely memories of some distant past
Awful and haunting, nowadays' perdition
Unable to forget the torture
As the ravens dropped her down into the lake
Feeding on her grief, feeding on her tears
She cries and cries and rakes her face
Until the flesh is torn apart and nails covered
In crimson blood
Her vision is lost, her path in turmoil
Broken beneath her feet
They turn away, the darkness falls
The play has ended, yet the screams rain down
The land is drowning, her life is fading
The darkness is falling and her death is creeping
A figment of memory is all that's left
Of the girl upon the earth who's all but bereft
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A Demon-Angel
An endless flow of bitter, and harsh and cruel words
The understanding and trust we hold as two
A madness that creeps over, bringing frustration and annoyance
Yet one who lightens the day like the sun
A demon yet an angel
The death of me yet brings me to life
An understanding by blood, a dagger that pierces deep
One who makes me tear at my hair
One who makes me laugh with joy
I cannot understand, the madness
The torment and aggravation
That strikes me hard and painfully
The memories and the happiness of life
That makes me smile every time
It's a psychosis that won't go away
How does a demon-angel exist?
At one point, joy, at another, anger
It's a psychosis that still puzzles me today
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My Heart Goes On: Sunset
Sunlit orchards, the sky was bright
Oranges blend as one unto the blues
Clouds dyed with the purple ink
Floating in the sea of life
A dream, a mystery
Madly scribbling away at day's last light
As the sun plunges from the sky
Shattering its magic across the land and into the blue
I reach out, a small, unknowing, tentative hand
Seeking refuge from the world around me
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My Heart Goes On: Night
The puppet without strings
The mind which lives and dies and lives again
The one unafraid to challenge yet doomed with the fear
A blinded sight, a muted voice, a deafened song
Dreams within dreams and nightmares of life
The thread of existence, of love and of us, so easily torn
My heart goes on, it flies free
When all around me I find walls of stone
When I lose my mind, my soul, my body
It makes its way over and away to you
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I'll Come Back, I Swear
I'll come back, I swear, I'll kill you, I'll stab you
My voice screams over the roar of flames around me
A witch, a witch, they cried
Worse than a dog, dragged and kicked
Until blood lay encrusted round my mouth
Across the entirety of my body
Now as I lay bound upon the pole, I scream
My lungs burst, I remain strong
The Goddess aid me
The poisoned minds of these people
Their lust for power and fear of us
Who teach to care, to love, to cherish
Blinded by their faith, their so called saviour
I hung there as the flames engulfed me
Slaying, sucking, striking, shocking
Cheers arise in the air as my body turns to ashes
Get rid of the evil folk, their malady, their hex
The curse we beset upon them
When we aided them in times of illness
In times of birth and death
I'll come back, I swear, I'll kill you, I'll stab you
As a ghost, I shall haunt you
So that your nights will be as restless as the minutes
That I stood in the fire, to see your eager, uncaring faces
I'll come back, I swear
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The Vampires Shall Prevail
The lid of the coffin is secure; no-one could possibly get in
Nobody could get out; however wrongly accused their sin
The nails dig deep into the wood, as the tears roll
In the heart and mind, left a gaping hole
A vampire must die - a stake through its heart
From this world, it must forever depart
"There's no place for one such as thee
Who spends the night around graves and He
A Devil's creature, creature of the night"
But never shall we go down without a fight
Our teeth are bared, our nails sharp and our eyes are keen
Looking at these people, with fire and rakes with a sheen
Their fear drowns them in these mindless thoughts
And are blinded from the terror that each and every one doth wrought
A charge ahead, from all around
We make not a scream, not a sound
As we shall protect one another till the end
And once again, when cornered, to the coffin - alive - we're sent
Nails hammered with paramount force
Lock them in behind closed doors
Pour the soil atop of it
Then say "Goodbye, burn in the pit"
Yet that we don't die, they forget
Our spirits and ghosts set free, we let
Until again, they return once more, to stem their fear
And as they look in, they're greeted with a sneer
Before the teeth are around their necks
Drinking the blood, they fall upon the deck
Our robes glide silently across
Revenge is set; no problem shall be the cross
We reign supreme as creatures of the night
Their actions have made us in the absence of light
We return once more from the depths of the earth
We'll raid and plunder, remove all mirth
They've made us what we have become
Chants and prayers beneath their breath, they hum
To absolutely no damned avail
As the Vampires shall forevermore prevail!
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Circle
The skull and its gleaming sapphire eyes, mesmerizing
As the light shines through them at the dawn, awakening
Magick is alight; it fills the air around me, touching
From Andromeda to the Horse, it twines around me
I sit quietly and silently inside the circle, waiting
Power flows through like the rivers to the seas, enchanting
It spreads and spreads to fill, and it is done, enrapturing
The pointed finger stretches out to touch the bubbling liquid
Sparks fly high into the dawning world, dancing
Faeries and the fey flutter as they gaze enchanted, hypnotising
I am the child of the forest, of the skulls and of the men, enthralling
I am the one that is, it is the one I am
The circle goes round and round
From death to life to death to life
From me to you to me to you
As we gaze deep into each other’s eyes, of sapphire
The ring is complete
And the world is whole again
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Hypocrites
Your words, all lies, an illusion
That I fell so stupidly for, I ran towards the mirage
Arms wide with hope, nothing else had mattered
I gave you my trust, my love
I gave you my everything
Yet in a flash
The mirror’s broken
A deceitful mind is now uprooted
The mirage is forever gone and all I find is
Sand, tears, and a rage that spreads to every part of my body
How could I have been so blind, so naïve, so senseless
To your foul, cruel, devious ways
Now I am left lost, a familiar world shattered
As the truths finally come pouring in
The well is overwhelmed, my life a lie, the joke
What’s the point?
When I’m surrounded by hypocrites?
Filthy, deceitful, lying hypocrites
Die, go die
And so, I shall go myself
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Life of Liberty
The blindness and the fear, the parasite upon us
Hinders the magic, the freedom of our lives
Bound inside the cage of madness
Where the only way is the popular way
Adapt and change, retort and fight
To follow this swift river into the darkness
Away from light
Unique, carefree like the leaf in the autumn wind
Like the waters of the ocean
And the birds of the forests
Gone forevermore, locked behind closed doors
Restraints and shackles upon our minds and souls
Soon enough, the disease will reach its goal
Poisoning our delicate threads
Fly free, let go, fly away into the night
Feel the wind in your hair, the clouds beneath your feet
Dance skyclad amongst the primordial trees
Sing and dance, round and round the fires
They hold the sacred life of liberty
Unburden yourself and find the true joys of life
Clouds asunder – feel the rain
Carpets of bluebells – feel no pain
Break the chain, swim upstream
Slide down the uncharted paths
Else feel this parasite’s insidious and deadly wrath
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Meditation
Whilst I sat beneath the trees
The wind, the rain, They sang to me
Of tales immemorial but filled with magick
The drum beats on, like the heart of the Earth and Moon
The voices, so dulcet and soothing
Send me into the trance
Where I fly down along the long forgotten path
Once I stood upon the cliff
And saw the glistening city of Avayet, my home
The joys and memories flood back into, unto me
I sit, and sit as I wait
For my past to be revealed to me
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Hear No Evil
Hear no evil, their poison, tainted words
That, like the banshee, lures you to their dwelling
Where self is lost to become as one
A narrow path where everyone follows
Hear not their evil, its poison, its malign influence
Hinders the freedom of mind and soul and spirit
Be yourself; hearken not to other’s pleas
Otherwise, you shall find yourself truly lost
In a straight path, where tree after tree is same
Stone after stone, the same old one
Hear no evil, their poison, tainted words
That, like the banshee, lures you to their dwelling
Where self is lost to become as one
As one into the infected marshes
Losing the sight of the light, blinded to yourself
Your own power and might, what you could become
Hearken not, never listen to their evil
It is a poison, the potion for self destruction
When mind and soul and spirit is locked away
Forever, whisked away, hidden in the darkness
Let yourself free, soar away from their cries
In the straight path, where clouds are gone, fleeting same
Where neither moon nor sun can light the path
Hear no evil, their poison, tainted words
That causes the mind and spirit and soul to rot away
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Wandering Spirit
Wandering spirit of the eternal night
Walk down the tunnel, walk to the light
My sweet dark angel of mysteries and secrets unheard
Hidden in the cove, drowned by the purple seas
Lost, forgot the sight
That we once held alight
The warmth that seeped through me
Which sent you spiralling into the sky
Away from me, lost in eternity
Never to be seen again
I hold the precious memories close to me
Afraid that with a moment’s glance they fade away
I’ll lose it all
Wandering spirit of the eternal night
Walk down the tunnel, walk to the light
My sweet dark angel of mysteries and secrets unheard
Hidden in the cove, drowned by the purple seas
My spirit has left, entered the night
As dark as pitch, I call as I might
But it was never to be, gone forevermore
As my soul, my angel leapt into the sea
Cold, icy waters enclose around
Left sinking, drowning, the corpse of an angel
Wings tattered and bloodied
The once heavenly face in ruins
Where is my spirit? Where is my soul?
Gone, departed from my life
The eternally blank and cavernous hole
Wandering spirit of the eternal night
Walk down the tunnel, walk to the light
My sweet dark angel of mysteries and secrets unheard
Hidden in the cove, drowned by the purple seas
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I Can’t Go On
The light flickers and the thunder rolls
I’m all alone and the heavens are torn apart
Drenched and cold
I wrap myself tighter
Fear grips me
Fetters bound to my hands and legs
Parasitic life on Earth
I can’t go on
The edge is there right in front of me
Water turns to ice, even colder
So frightened
Ever so frightened
The walls are closing in
Pushed closer to the edge
Until I take the plunge
To my sharp and quick death
Rid me of these Earthly burdens
Sea rolls in, drag me away
Take me away to a dream
Where everything is kind
Where I can live as I wish
Nobody’s business
All my own
The edge is there right in front of me
Water turns to ice, even colder
Ever so frightened
Sight is lost
Forever to wander through the trees
Weeping for the love so cruelly taken
Strangled by the fear and gasping for breath
Unable to say the final words
Filled with hatred and grief
A secret that is taken to the grave
Sea rolls in, drag me away
Take me away to a dream
Where everything is kind
Where I can live as I wish
Nobody’s business
All my own
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Forever Damned
Surround by the lies that come from all around
Unable to distinguish the truth anymore
Lost, lost in the sea
Each time something brushes past
She flinches in fear
Fear that that would happen again
Forever scared
Petrified of the pursuers, seeking in the dark
Hound-like creatures, drenched in lust
Eyes wide, head darts
What’s round the corner?
What’s down the road?
Jump at every sound
Scream at every shadow
The lies of her family pierced deep down to her heart
Shredding the only trust she had
Poisoning of an innocent body
Lost in this cruel world forevermore
Drenched in lust for the moment
Sick, twisted creatures of the pitch black alley
No-one there to help her
As her throat bleeds with shrieks
The family she once trusted, look on
Scornful smiles, bitter shrills
Lies that are toxicating to the soul
No more form of purification
Forever damned by the lust
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Banished Forevermore
I’d rather die from your knife
In between my ribs
So that my life force is drained empty and lost
Rather than be hit by your damned shoe
Like the ghouls and evil spirits on the day of the Hungry Ghosts
Banished from the Earth forevermore
Lost to the world
Unable to relive
Damned for an eternity
Trapped between the living and the dead
Time remains endless, stationary yet moving
As second by second the pain, the terror grows
And grows
Into something unthinkable
Madness, intoxicating
Neither sun nor moon not star
Dare to light the barren path
Fog clings onto your skin, shrouding mystery behind the veil
Lower than the cockroaches beneath your feet
Lowest of the low, worse than the dead, the ghosts
The freaks and damned folk of the night
Trapped for an eternal silence of solitude
In the midst of haunting claustrophobia
No candle would light the way
A truly unthinkable, unbearable punishment
Where neither the living nor the dead exist
I’d rather die from your knife
Twisted deep into my ribs
At least I’d die a human and have the chance
At least I’d have a chance
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Everlasting
Everlasting day, never let it end
Dream on until the final exodus
Let me chase the sun forever, round and round the earth
Let me leave the night where lives and dreams were crushed
Let me continue, let me live every moment
That comes flying at me, let me stand there
Savour the moment
Seek the hope that brings me joy
Seek the wishes that make me hope
Seek the desires that brings me wishes
Seek the joys that brings me desires
A circle unending, forever linked
Onwards and onwards, never broken
Day flows into day, don’t let it end
It’s been so amazing
Let the mirage remain
Let me savour the moment
Drown in these dreams
Drown in these wishes
Don’t let the mirage shatter
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The End
It ends, the road is broken
The fire leaps above, burning around my head
I cannot face this anymore
Anybody’s tether would’ve torn
The thousand poisonous daggers
Leak their drugs deep inside of me
I must shout out, save myself
The target of all their cruel jokes
Seemingly harmless, yet to me
Stab deep into my soul
Filthy, little rascals, mindless, selfish brats
Watch the sky, watch your step
You’re crossing the line
My anger is boiled and shall scald you to death
If your manner persists in this way
I have no choice – no-one understands
All have become enemies – gone and dead
I’m all alone, I’ll defend myself to the very end
I’m not your doll, your punchbag
That will never feel the sadness and grief you bring
I’m not the thing to throw your insults at – you foul-mouthed little girl
To be spoken of behind my back – you lying deceptive boy
I’ll eventually get up
Scream my anger out – until my lungs burst free
And all ends
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History of an Elven Land
Seductive temptress of the ashen night
In the midst I see your light
Gleaming from the sickle moon
For your love, inexorably, I swoon
Hold me tight in your embrace
Sail away to a far off place
To lands, lost in dusts of time
Up mountains and clouds we shall climb
Fulfil the dreams of lust and desire
Let us start to rekindle our fire
Flames dance, shadows are cast
Look to the future, forget the past
Troubles and worries quickly depart
As this preternatural beauty doth start
The fire grows, leaping into the air
Little eyes of goblins and elves doth stare
To watch this strange and beautiful sight
Filled with bewilderment, filled with delight
To see the forbidden love, in front of them, enact
An unheard-of tale with amazing pact
Elven princess and human lord
How could they have possibly adored?
Wrong it was, their fathers said
I’d rather have you killed and dead
Yet their love was true
As sure as the sky and sea is blue
Uncontrollable as the sun rises from day to day
That they were here, together they lay
Stars of heaven looked on down
To see them in their love and drown
In joy, regardless of their parents’ pleas
Until from deep within the trees
Came the sounds of elf and man
Like the noise of a maddened clan
Eyes were wide and drenched in fear
From deep within, came a silent tear
They had come and they were doomed
As drums and voices loudly boomed
Soon enough there came the face
Of a man of the Elven race
His face a painting of anger and pain
Upon his life, a mark, a stain
To see his one and only daughter
Be with the man he wished to slaughter
The rage welled out, an anguished cry
The rest arrived and the end was nigh
For the lord who stood by his lover’s side
Sweet soft hands in his, as she silently cried
An arrow was notched, the archer ready
Held between two branches to make it steady
With a slight nod of the father’s head, he shot
But it was the maiden that he had got
Like a fox she slid in front, too quick
For any to stop the sharpened stick
The lord looked on unbelieving
That his one true love had taken her leaving
Her body fell limp into his arms
He looked into her eyes, her charms
The world was lost in that single instant
Both humans and elves became ever distant
Her father stood in shocked disbelief
That her life would have been so brief
Once again, his anger grew
His sword, his weapons, down he threw
And stomped away into the growing light
Hastening to get away from the depressing sight
Tempers flew when he returned
When the family of the tragedy learned
Consort fury, he she scorned
For days and days, they mourned and mourned
City led to disrepair
As they drowned in their despair
Crops were lost, harvests little
The young grew sick, the elderly brittle
One day, a fire was ignited
From the cliff it could be sighted
The golden city turned to grey
And there, they couldn’t live another day
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Purples, Blacks and Blues
A demented flight and maddened twirl
Of childish idiocies, you mindless girl
Screams of anger and torrents of hate
Fancies of the world, joy and fate
Hidden behind that curtain, darkness seep,
Its little head ‘round the corner peep
Holding tight to the purple shred of insipidity
Performances of lies and utter stupidity
Silly pictures of the alive and dead
Incapability to see the truth, in your empty head
Beneath this veil, that I so dread
Along the path I thought I tread
Calmness fails, spoilt rat
In the little hole, your rudeness fat
Blinded, sordid, whimsical girl
Arms and legs, and head and hair you hurl
Ever seeing your only way
Never have they lived a day
Ostriches with their noses buried in the ground
So have you, our lives, you found
Lesser beings, unable to think as you do
Ever thought that to be true
Arrogant, ignorant, stupid worm
In your fantasy world, your beliefs are firm
Preacher, teacher, stuck-up brat
Stuck your head inside your hat
Words are futile to a faulty brain
Solely, your own life, with sadness stain
Wish of beacon and of guidance through your cares
With that evil eye of hatred and detest she stares
Oblivious to the joys and love
Just cold like the dead white dove
Once a pure snowball of white
Ridden of the knowledge, of the light
Locked within a cage of blindness
Confined in your solitary madness
Like sticks in the fire, turns to splinters
The snow in the sun of the winters
Pointless words that flow in the breeze
Long and lost amidst the seas
Vision lost, why should I waste my breath
When her little world, began with my death
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Samhain
The wheel has completed another turn
Three hundred and five and sixty days of life
Reunited once more with the gone and lost
Speak to me, whispers in the night
Blessed souls of times long past
Family and friends, peaceful be thy nature
Hallow and calmness be thy virtue, and unto me speak thy words
Of joys, of happiness, of sorrow and of grief
Divulge, confide the secrets left too late
Enter my mind in thus deep dream state
Connected graves of earth and moon, set below the yellow plate
Enter this world, reveal our fate
Dances underneath the glowing light
Cleanse and purify our minds and our delight
Heaven and hell mingle unto one, upon our Earth
Summerland, the paradise of Remembrance
This year has passed of losses and of births
Gains and deaths, or dearest pets,
Of closest friends. Welcome into our lives
New relatives, new abode, new revelations
Beloved Ah Po, Blessed Be
Beloved Ah Tai, Blessed Be
Beloved hamsters and fish, Blessed Be
Beloved Guinea, Blessed Be
Beloved Hopper, Blessed Be
Forever, you shall be in our memories
Thank you for your present of life and joy
Thank you for your love and care
Thank you, finally, for just being there
And now welcome on the forthcoming year
Learn of all the joys, their wisdom
Let’s hail to the Holly King and Mother Moon
This Holy Day of Blessed Samhain!
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Intrigue
A green, red and purple light aglow
The aura round that intriguing face
Magick and mystery spark alight
Beeper into the truth I must delve
Born on the day of the thinnest veil
Talented beyond all I’ve ever seen
Such wonder befell upon me
To lose this chance would be absolute folly
Laughter and merriment in times young and old
Let this mystery slowly but truly, unto me, unfold
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Padriac
Join you within the cavernous hole
Oh dearest brother, cursed so cruelly
How I dearly wish upon this twilight sun
That one day you shall return to me
Back as a white swan I had perceived
Ages of love and cherishment, banished
In such an instant, hand, mouth, mind
Torn free in that single moment
The world, an illusion, in its stead
Time goes, cherish the light of the dark
And the dark of the light
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Regret
Mindless lingering of thoughts untold
When better they are, to behold
Unto the desire, break thy mould
And your future shall immediately be foretold
Speak your mind and speak your heart
Fly away as swift as a dart
Hollowed tree, full of doubts
Speak your world and all fall out
Blessed world and naked leave
Cast the shadow upon the sea
Stood high upon that cliff, the rocky ledge
Fleeting memories of what you should have said
Clamber down, you still have time
The ladder’s not too long, the ladder’s not too broken
A wonder, you could have been
Yet you had chosen to never be seen
Another leaf blows away
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Winterboy
That icy frozen coldness of my face
Voice hidden behind the layers of lace
Across all my clothing, the lace does trace
Wandering spider, lost in its own black
Detergent for those that may come near
The little voice does tell me to dear
‘Fraid to get close, so my life does smear
Please don’t judge me, shackles hold me back
My own shackles that stop me dead upon the track
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Insomnia
Fleeting dancing
Recollections, alterations, memories
Outcomes, incomes, processes
Possibilities, what ifs, whys, run around
Around my head, tappings and beatings
And beatings of death
Labyrinth of the mind, lost and unfound
Tossing and turning
Parties of images and movies
Run through
Then through
And through
And through again
Music, so loud, drumming in my ears
Voices, so harsh, screaming in my mind
Those low thumps every few seconds
That makes it impossible to sleep
A million dandelion seeds upon the wind
Liken unto my demons of the night
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