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VESPERTINE VALENTINE

Face down, I cradle her memory
To my heart in this temple of woe
This Vesper mine,  my valentine
To the symphony of mourning crows
On sad and crumbling graveyard crosses
This concubine, my valentine
Count with me our heavy losses  
 
Do you remember - dismembered
Those nights of October dead
Adorned in habiliments of the damned
At a time when dawn and dusk are wed
Love me with torment - Our culture
Eternal overture
Worshipped in entwining caskets
Sacrificed in ways vile and drastic  
 
Beware the curse of love
It's deadly as sin  
 
FOR YOU - Divide and conquer
I'll be there to haunt her
With flights of murder
FOR YOU - Enslave and torture  
Eating with vultures
And rolling thunder
FOR YOU - Unmask the liars
Brandish thorns of briar
Covet desire
FOR YOU - Jealously mires
Celestial choirs
We will kill them with fire  
 
I uncovered her lamenting heart
In the ashy ruins of Pompeii
She's Vespertine, my valentine
The altar set for the rape of faith
With scarlet locks and porcelain flesh
So Byzantine, my valentine
Cursed are those nights of lovers' caress  
 
FOR YOU - Divide and conquer
I'll be there to haunt her
With flights of murder
FOR YOU - Enslave and torture  
Eating with vultures
And rolling thunder
FOR YOU - Unmask the liars
Brandish thorns of briar
Covet desire
FOR YOU - Jealously mires
Celestial choirs
We will kill them with fire  
 
Drift among cinders, dissenter
Blasphemy on her lips
Dressed in splendid sixes - 666
This masquerade of Apocalypse
Glorious violence in incest
'mong serpents and canis
Where siblings plot rivalry
And the Bard sets up tragedy  
 
FOR YOU - Divide and conquer
I'll be there to haunt her
With flights of murder
FOR YOU - Enslave and torture  
Eating with vultures
And rolling thunder
FOR YOU - Unmask the liars
Brandish thorns of briar
Covet desire
FOR YOU - Jealously mires
Celestial choirs
We will kill them with fire  
 
Sound the trumpets of WAR
Within the shimmering arcade of blood
Before the walls of TROY
Dearly beloved on the pile of death  
 
TRIUMPHANT  
IN JUDGEMENT
we will - we will
DESTROY THEM ALL
 
Written by HadesRising
Published | Edited 8th Mar 2023
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©2023 Frank Green
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