Poems

"The Vigil"

In the darkness the world lies waiting 

For the dawn which signals waking 

And in the darkness quiet and unholy 

I am preparing for what I know not fully 

Arcane whispers on the wind 

Strength from nothing I will fend 

Secrets from the sultry deep 

Keep me from sweet sleep 

I shall keep my nightly vigil 

Protected by my sacred sigil 

Hands together clasped in prayer 

Looking up to heaven bright and fair 

My sword my armor and my shield 

To the evil I shall never yield 

I stand at the last threshold 

Holding back the horde from the fold

Evil be held back from the sleeping world 

Through clang of sword or spear furled 

Til last I see the red of dawn 

The faint glow a sweet siren song 

The sun to keep it's watch by day 

To keep the nameless dark things at bay 

Release me from my weary plight 

O you great bastion of light !

"For My Love"

The great sapphire waters flow

In the streams that meander on so slow

Where the roses and the willows grow 

The place where once my love would go 

And I would follow along beside 

To where my happy memories reside 

Where stands the green meadow 

And all earthy treasures here below 

My love would frolick by the waters edge 

And dance around the overgrown hedge 

She called herself a nature's child 

She was lovely kind and mild 

Wherever she left I would follow 

From the highest hill to the lowest hollow 

These days we spent in the glory of the sun 

How could I ever know the race would soon be run 

The love we shared that was so pure and true 

A love that endures through and through 

But not all was pure and bright 

For not all in man's world is good and right 

The one place I could not follow my love was her own father's door 

For he thought me a beastly cur of social poor 

And condemned me outside to wait for a score 

And wander lonely around the bleak moor 

But outside her father's hearth she was free 

And all the world she dreamed to see 

Someday when we were both grown 

We would explore the world yet unknown 

She promised me when she took my hands 

From the highest peaks to the warmest sands 

But I will only hinder you I said 

There are some places that only you may tread 

If you cannot tread then I will carry you 

She said for her love was true 

She was full of compassion for all God's creatures 

And she was wiser than all the great teachers 

How I miss her love and her grace 

And I rue that I cannot again see her fair face 

For the one I love was taken from me 

And now here I lay alone under the tree 

Where once we lay together and dreamed 

When once the world so perfect had seemed 

My eyes burn with bitter tears

How I wish I could embrace her again and melt away her fears 

But those days are gone now 

And nothing could bring them back not even my vow 

She will never come to gaze upon the waters again 

Or feel the warm embrace of sweet summer rain 

She will never taste of again of loves perfect ache 

She will never stand against the world for the least man's sake 

So many dreams left undreamt 

And so many letters left unsent 

I see the evil man every night in my dreams 

I see him and my heart bursts at it's seams 

How could he have taken my girls life 

How could he take paradise and take it into strife 

The evil man took her life away 

And that perfect innocence he did betray 

I often go to his window and linger 

And often raise an accusing finger 

But the townspeople only laugh at my presence 

They will not give my dearest her justice 

The evil man regards me oft

He no longer chases me from his croft 

He only smiles slyly and stares into my eyes 

"No one will ever understand thy cries 

Little creature of the cobbles 

Go and return to thy baubles"  

I hiss out with anger but what can I do 

I am small and weak and thought a fool 

I go to our meadow and I sit down and cry 

I know i cannot rest until that man in the grown dost lie 

Six feet down and six feet deep 

Lying in eternal restless sleep 

A death for a death 

It will not bring my love back to breath 

And perhaps for that it is vain

But I know what I will do all the same 

Oh woe to me the witness to see 

Him lay her to rest beneath that cherry tree 

Beneath the ivy and the Lindsey 

To lie undiscovered unto antiquity 

I watched him take her young life 

To make her die a maiden who would never become a wife 

He took the stone to her head 

And her life drained out bright and red 

The poor sweet girl 

His poor sweet girl 

Oh woe to me that I was born small 

Oh woe to me I was born to be least of all 

The creatures that roam along the dirt 

To be a creature of such great hurt 

Fingerless lame little limbs 

Four of each with claws for rims 

With fur and tail and nought for hands 

Slender and sly for sneaking the strands

I am but a little beast 

And of mine own race I am the least 

I have no words for to speak 

And I have no glories there to seek 

But the love of a human is the greatest honor my kind can know 

All other concerns fall so low 

Four little points they call fangs 

Such a mockery it is that it pangs 

My heart is filled with such bitter sorrow 

For my girl that will know no tomorrow

Except in bright holy heaven above 

I pray you fly on the wings of the dove 

Over this great green ball 

That is fading with each weary call 

That flutters from my tired lips 

All the bright things remaining seem gyps 

For my lost love with the fate so bleak and grim 

For you I will remain afloat and swim 

I will never know rest again 

I will never know the embrace of a friend 

Until at last below the ground lies the fiend 

He will go down below to where I send 

And not a mercy I will lend 

For no mercy did he show you my dear 

When he split your throat from ear to ear 

Nevermore shall he walk in the sun 

For he ended you with his gun 

Your own father the evil man 

Who killed his child by his own hand 

I will avenge my dearest one 

And then finally it will be done 

I will not be held back by the limitations of my race 

For I will be fighting through the memory of your golden face

Teacher child lover friend

I will bring the killer to his end 

For you my dear love 

And when I am done I shall come to you in heaven above 

And we shall spend eternity together 

In that golden place of no fairer weather 

And bask in the light of the fathers face 

In that eternal timeless place 

We will rest in the shade of willows made of spun gold 

In the land where we will never grow old 

We shall run through the meadows of silk 

Free from the curse of man's ilk 

Along the streams of cerulean blue 

My one love fair and true 

You have elevated me from the dust of the earth 

To a place worthy of the noble of birth 

I thank you my love 

I will see you soon in high heaven above 

"The Doom Of Man"

Today I glanced the doom of man 

Death came and took me by the hand 

But of death I felt no ounce of fear 

For Death had spoken in a voice so soft but clear 

Come with me and see with your eyes 

My intentions I will not disguise 

You are the one who has been chosen 

To glimpse upon the truth yet unspoken 

But do not fret , it was not made lightly 

For you are the one found to be sightly 

And you as the strongest amongst the race of man 

To bear what only you can 

To come hither and see 

To taste of man's final destiny ! 

I was sore afraid yet sore at peace 

And with deaths words all pondering did cease 

The tranquility of a thousand ages fell upon me 

And I felt as I were floating above a glassy sea 

Death took me to the clouds so high in the sky 

Death pointed to the ground and let out a sad sigh

From where we stood in the clouds so high 

We saw the ages and eons pass by 

A new epic at each worlds turn nigh 

I saw the wickedness in the hearts of men 

I saw their evilness and sin 

Man fought with one another

I saw them spare not even a brother 

I shuddered and I shook 

And at last I could not bear to look 

I buried my face into my hands 

I was disgusted by what transpired in my own lands 

Throughout all the countless ages

How we had fell to our carnal rages 

I collapsed onto my knees 

And I begged to heaven "Mercy oh please!"

But heaven did not answer me 

It had turned its back from man, you see 

And at last I realized what I had been meant to learn 

From this lesson that would soon adjurn 

That mankind was fated to burn 

That unless we turned back from the brink 

We would without final mercy be allowed to sink 

Into the waters of darkness to be devoured 

And my stomach churned and soured 

Mankind would become a distant memory 

A Scar left on the earth by some nameless enemy 

And I cried cold bitter tears

For all the sums of all our fears

Mankind was always fated for doom 

With our own hands with built and sealed our tomb 

We had been born weak and dying 

Only to ourselves we had been lying 

I looked up again into the eyes of death 

I was a slave to my nature and I cursed him under my breath 

He smiled And then he chuckled 

And then my thin veneer of patience buckled 

I Rose up in an unholy and desperate rage 

I threw my self at death like a lion released from a cage 

But death reached out and trapped me 

He laughed again and said "all men are alike you see 

This is the lesson you were tasked to learn 

For in your blood violence you yearn 

This is mankind's bane 

For they are cruel and vain 

They are brimming with hate and lust 

And they show no mercy to the just 

Mankind will be their own end 

For only from their hearts can they in no way defend "

I swallowed and regained my composure 

As the seconds ticked by it only came closer 

As we had watched throughout all time 

The ages went to and fro with rhyme 

Yet I had judged my own brethren for their crimes 

Yet I was just as guilty as them and to that I had to resign 

I had been made as treacherous and foul 

As any evil man who bore a curse and scowl

The tears fell freely again like salty rain 

For all my attempts to clear my name 

All had fallen short in vain 

We are all alike , one in the same 

One man or a hundred we all speak for the horde 

With rake or fork or broom or sword 

"I have be the doom of my kind

In this no solace will I find 

In this darkness still as a grave 

I realize there is nothing to save

Death take me back down to my earthen tomb 

There I will lie in wait for the earthen doom"

Death smiled and took me by the hand 

And he returned me to the unstable sand 

"Lilith"

Lilith high up in her crumbling castle 

Looking out over where once lived vassels 

But now the only vassels are crows and rats 

The insects crawling on the ground and swarming gnats 

She shifts and then she sighs 

And when she remembers the glory she almost cries 

When upon her head she bore a crown 

And her face was merry with nary a frown

Days spent in excessive opulence 

Days without want for sustenance 

Squandered in endless pleasure 

Everything in reach without measure 

But those days were long gone 

Like the dew at first dawn 

Barren as the old vineyard 

And silent as the bleak graveyard 

Where all the companions of youth 

Lay under cold stone to rueth 

There was silence where once was constant laughter 

Where merriment always followed thereafter 

Where joys never ceased 

But it seemed time was only leased 

For it all had gone before her eyes 

All she had left was herself and her sighs 

And she was doomed to linger on 

In the darkness without a song 

What a foul thing for which she was cursed 

A thing which could never be reversed 

Accursed to live the life of a killer 

With no peace or happiness to fill her 

All alone in an empty tower 

That had all the splendor of a wilted flower 

Lilith was fated to linger on without light 

Lilith was a creature of the night 

"Sanguine"

As I roved out the sky was streaked with indigo 

I walked down to the fields where the verdant moss grow 

I had but a little bit further to where the enchanting rivers flow 

I stared down into the cerulean waters below 

Down where the sanguine roses grow 

Nestled between the willows so solemn 

Beneath the clouds of cotton column 

In the morning air so still and deep 

Before the waking hours while mankind is sleep 

The great orb of sienna burned and rose in the quiet sky 

And night drew back to in wait lie 

For when the darkness would again shroud the world 

And the blanket of blackness would be unfurled 

But for now it was the hour of the sun 

To raise the earth to life and to run 

The daily race as the terrestrial orb spun 

And so it continues until time is done 

"Cheese Poem"

Cheese cheese

I love it with ease 

I eat it with everything

This I love to sing

It's perfect in every way 

That's why I have it everyday 

"The Queen Of Peace And Love"

They called me the Queen of peace and love 

The people cheered as I floated above 

From my lofty bier I smiled and beamed 

And in that moment perfect the world had seemed 

Joyous and beautiful and bright 

They called me their bastion of light 

They held out their hands in hopes of even the slightest touch

They said it would free them as little or as much 

The littlest morsel of a greeting 

No matter how miniscule or fleeting 

They hailed me as their saviour 

They called me the model of moral behavior

Had they gone one step further

And they had in the eye of the modern observer 

It would be said they bowed down before me in worship 

Whispers traveled far and wide 

Rumors that never did quite subside 

That I had placed some dark spell 

Something that had worked quite well 

To make all blind to my faults 

And to banish my enemies through secret assaults 

Some arcane bewitchment from the deep 

Some Ancient devilry and vile deceit 

But they were wrong one and all 

And like sand towers they will fall 

I am perfect , I am grace 

I am mercy's fair heavenly face 

The people have come to see who I am 

They have come to realize I am the lamb 

I am their savior I am their truth 

I am the one who their enemies sleuth 

They bow down before me for they know their place 

And for that showing they've earned their grace 

They have seen the mighty hand 

That made the enemies disband 

And fall down in crumpled heaps 

And fall to ruin in the deeps

Through the thousand marching feet 

With fiery blades with bites so sweet 

And iron thunderbolts from on high

With one bright light bring end nigh

They bow down with glossy eyes 

And all together come their cries 

Hail to our queen of peace and love 

Whose glory and authority was bestowed from above 

Champion from heaven and warrior for man 

Who keeps the sheep with her stern hand 

Who deals swift justice in the name of the most high 

She knows who is named to die 

And we beg thee for your wisdom 

For you have been granted dominion 

Over all that is green and good 

And all that for a millennia has stood 

You have united us as one 

A kingdom of glory shining like the sun 

You tore down our false gods

And the false kings and their rods 

Which kept us shackled in our slavery

You came forth in all your bravery 

And freed us from our ignorance 

With your holy fire you have granted us our innocence 

Have mercy on us creatures of the dust 

We have murdered stolen and fallen to lust 

Give us our judgements laid out in heaven above 

Oh Queen of Peace and Love 

When they had finished their praises 

And once again stood and lifted their gazes 

A terrible silence had then befallen 

And they stood grim and solemn 

I looked unto the crowd and then unto the heaven 

And I stood up with arms outstretched to beckon 

The spirit filled me and flowed through me 

And then the vision I began to see 

The eyes of my people were unwaivering

They waited in tense silence as each moment I was savoring

At last I knew what next to go and do 

In this hour of our victory and true 

I began to call to my children and sing 

My proclaimation to them I would bring 

We have freed all the oppressed on this great terrestrial ball 

But we were made for a higher call 

Look upward into the skies 

Can your hear those tortured cries 

Each star is an earth in need of cleansing 

Of the evils of mankind unrelenting

We will free them from the mortal coils 

The ball and chains of man's many foils 

Oh you precious children you chosen few 

Who through the trials were found true 

And pure enough to stand with me 

Follow me to your final destiny !

We have brought the world into a peaceful new age 

We have freed it from man's guilt and rage 

Stand with me now oh children of right 

To banish the unholy night !

In our hands the new future we hold 

It is more precious than the riches of old 

Through peace and love we shall cleanse the universe

Of the dark ugly and perverse 

Each terrestrial sphere shall become a paradise 

Free from the blights of sin and vice 

Heaven shall come down to the ground 

And peace and love shall abound 

The mercy of the heavenly light 

Shall free the races from their plight 

And those chosen few pure enough to remain 

Shall join us in our blessed reign 

We thank the heavens for our sight 

Which will set the sin to right 

Go forth in the glory of the new age

All your fears now assuage 

I watched my people's eyes swell with delight 

They were ready to bring forth the light!

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The thousand spears brought forth heavens thunderbolts 

And placed them on the iron alters 

The thousand servants brought forth the sacrificial fires 

And lit the bases of the great torches

The thousand wise men brought forth the ancient tomes of knowledge 

And in unison chanted the sacred numbers 

Then they looked unto to my shining face 

And I beckoned to one who always stood at the right hand 

And he brought forth the great scepter of power 

And I took it into my hands 

And to my waiting children I said 

Let us free the heavens 

And I brought down my left hand onto the head of the great scepter 

And I caressed the giant ruby red as blood 

And at that touch the great thunderbirds rose in unison towards heaven 

And great trails of mist trailed underneath them 

They shot into the dark sky of the night 

Towards the waiting stars 

And time stood still 

And we waited 

And After a silent millennia had passed into antiquity 

The thunder bolts burst into a thousand pieces and the heavens filled with a heavenly light 

And all throughout heaven was heard the cries of the evil ones as they were in an instant purged from this life 

My children dove and scattered at the terrible light 

They covered their eyes for they could not bear to look upon the glory

For their eyes had filled with tears of joy and mirth 

And then it was silent 

Over all the heavens and the earth 

A dark hazy sky had replaced where the stars had once burned in the sky with their foul putrid glow

All was right now 

In heaven and in earth 

The new dawn had come 

The great red sunrise burst in the east and burned away the darkness 

I smiled and I sighed , finally able to rest 

I had completed my great purpose. 

I had reclaimed both heaven and earth 

The Queen and her chosen few 

My children once again regained their compusures 

And I beckon

ed them to face the new dawn 

To bask in its glory 

Their tears of jubilation fell like rain again 

And they knew they were loved 

And there was peace 

"Unfinished and Untitled"

I stand in the glory of the Cimmerian kings of old 

Stately , regal and richly adorned with gold 

The glory of which is hard to behold 

For a mere mortal of a peasants fold 

Atlantean decadence from the ceilings to the floors 

Gold and silver and pearls delight 

Every eye that could glimpse a sight 

The splendor of dynastic Rome 

As one would marvel from an ancient tome