Here I stand amidst wintery solace

Frozen and cold my core and universe unblessed

The searing sight of pain through this disdained face

My vision from my empty guts in this unholy place

Raised my vengeance with heart and soul full rage to come

In the dark halls of this universe’s womb

I give a fair warning with thunder shout and growl

Pushing deities into the darkness of this room

Knocking on their doors wrapping their floors beating windows

Decrees to empty heaven and Hell

Dragging out every strand from the loom

Strangling every bride and groom.

It is the theft of my heart’s passion and love

That brought me here wicked driven and cold

It is the annihilation of beauty’s searing petals

That’s bound me to vengeance and horror tales told

It is the extinguishing of her life’s eternal flame

That rages a fire through time against what angels stole.

BEAUTY’S DEMISE

I

She bore no malice to the world

Was the sun in any man’s universe

Her grace and beauty was flower petal unfurled

Drove men to their knees in eloquence and verse.

Her eyes bore every ocean of blue

And the thunderous storms of grey

Her wicked smile his eyes to hers she drew

Towards each other drawn to fate.

Every crocus she picked in springtime thaw

Another would bloom and children stood in awe

Feeling her touch softer than a summer breeze

Would soothe the greatest mountain quake with ease.

When she would love, oceans would rise before her

Her passion shook the earth and trees fell and bowed

Her ecstasy went deep into the ground and to heaven’s birth

Her songs of moans and sighs gave light strength above night’s shroud

But on dew-kissed hazy hot summer morns

Angels and demons surround Aurora princess of light and love

Savagery-driven hate tore from her that which life was born

Vanquished from her alight the world against this darkness strove.

In the moments of death, fervor, and trembling

A light quickened to enlighten the murder of crows

The realization of time dragging them through the brambles

Collapsing to death’s dust, an understanding was struck by the same blow.

II

Crocus the grievous angel

Seen walking into hell

With pick axe dragging, ripping floorboards

A crowbar over torn-winged shoulders

Wolf of hunger’s anger by his side

Ravenous growls scurried in the fire

Thunder comes from every room entered

Howls are bellowed from the torn beggars

His tears disseminate the deep place where they fall

His weeping groans into screams shutter their bones

And they all turn to dust the floor of lust is purged.

In heaven fat Cupid engorged in his absorption

Weeps at the coming of his doom

As Crocus climbs the steps to want and envy

Stairwells crumble into ruin and apathy

Crushing under his space like the ocean swells to the shore.

She is forever in his heart

Enshrined, kept, and gilded

A place where it’s never dark

Her vessel in him with her essence filled

Left the moon its cycle to start

He spun the universe and took all of hell to the dark

He is a man giving up his wings

To allay those that took from him the living heart

As she was love, life, and light

Without such a kiss to soothe his heart, he has but fought.

Upon the destruction and fall Hades’ last breath

He stands and drinks the scene, death eternal.

Walking through this funeral pyre of ruin and stench.

The remains of evil seep into the ground gnawing teeth clenched

The fires are smoke into the cold winter.

As the ashes of Legions fall there nothing shall rise

When Crocus has slain the last angel

Ripped wings from this one’s back

With torn gore and sops of blood-dried hell

Drips the carcasses with the rest on mile-high stacks

Graces his work with sad, sad, smile

And blames his lack of humanity on the breath of bile

Crocus plants the pick axe to his left

In tears throws the crowbar to a world bereft

With his hands beating his breast

Hollers and cries rip his ribs open to pain unfulfilled

Her essence freed and avenged

She weeps a gentle rain

Upon Eve and her Adam

As they are free from the confines of paradise

Heaven is abandoned

Hell is shut up

The balance restored

The balance is man.