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- - - THE SCOURGE OF THE STORM - - -
Devour the courage of man
In the heart of the Apep
Horus, blinded in the eye of Ra
Shivers at the rise of Set
A curse upon the sands of time
By the Book of Life that binds
The reader to the hands of Anubis
Comes the beast stinking of hubris
Beauty of innocence unfolds
Within the tempest that churns
She scorned a love so true, foretold
Leaving behind a scar that burns
Lo, and behold, the sword of the storms
When vengeance is cast upon thy own blood
The destroyer within the sight of Ra
A scarlet Nile flows in time to kill a God
Hacked up, scattered into the wind
Bloody hands, the taste of kin
The Afterlife and the great Anubis
Arranged in a circle of cobras
Sacrifice for the cold-hearted
Gather forth canopic jars
Reunite two lovers parted
Betwixt a crescent moon and stars
In league, temples of Set erected
By those god-kings and legions of slave-bearers
The whip cracks with the boom of thunder
Marking the tortured flesh with absolute terror
The mindset of the makers of man
Indifferent to the suffering of serpents
Cast onto the scorching of time
To carry the deeds of Set’s laments
Sacred words chanted to the god of gods
The Nile runs red with sacrifices
Sacraments bound to deathly curses
Man quakes at the calm before the storm
His fury burns with passion
Lo, and behold, the sword of the storms
When vengeance is cast upon thy own blood
The destroyer within the sight of Ra
A scarlet Nile flows in time to kill a God
Thunder
The burning winds lash to the day
Fire
Burns in the breast of man
Murder
Fratricide throughout the ages
Displayed
In great vomitoriums
Desert
Sands slip between cold hands
Tragic
Operas leaves him grey and void
Castings
From the Book of the Dead
Brings him back again
Devour the courage of man
In the heart of the Apep
Horus, blinded in the eye of Ra
Shivers at the rise of Set
(c) 2015 Frank Green
Published 11th Dec 2015
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Anonymous
11th Dec 2015 6:33am
If this were a parable told in the times of the Egyptians, Pharaohs would have idoloized you, and not only as a man but as a poet...Bow, my King, this is absolutely beautiful and breathtaking...~yours, Devil~lyn.
11th Dec 2015 8:30pm
thank you. That is awesome. Your kind words are always a light in dark days.
11th Dec 2015 10:52pm
12th Dec 2015 4:36am
