03-12-2014, 01:07 AM | #1 |
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Edge of Heaven
Edge Of Heaven
Walls of shined marble reflect the perfectly elegant vista See the ghostly image of Romanesque emerald steeples Citizens exit in sequence - draped in crimson and gold Each a brilliant artisan marching, neck-deep in scriptures and scrolls They retreat to towers and shrines, some nearly scraping the skies, this Is a city in it's powerful prime, the wall can't reflect its full face or horizon A place with greatness inside - and the shining wall just tells half the legend Continue the climb with your eyes, see the past the city's edges See just above the wall's peak, above the iron spikes and sigils Hop on the back of a carrion bird, recline and witness Steel your mind and listen, then behold the violent image Strident cries and whimpers - shadows slink, the guise of villains They slyly pillage tiny adobe huts - then leave the floors slathered in guts Roving bandits travel and crush - tiny farming settlements The civil speckles across this desert; starving, desolate & carcass-carpeted. Patrolled by giant lizards and angry vultures Man murder man - the staple of stranger cultures This raging cauldron - a dustbowl of theft and brutality Mixes well to form the potent apex of insanity Now the bird circles back - drops you into the foaming mouth of a rat Which scurrys deep into the ground astoundingly fast Squeezing itself down through the cracks - of the golden roads Deep into the sewers where the sludge slowly flows The rat feasts on broken bones, hanging off bony limbs Lightly coated with rotten meat and corroding skin They slowly shift downstream - a bastardized miserable styx Eventually all ending up in the sewers infinite crypt Flashback - they were once merchant's, clever with paper Amongst kings and noblemen - they held excellent favor But every emperor tapers - and they were ruined, betrayed By those whose skeletons will follow in this ruthless parade The truth is a charade, a play of silver scepters and tongues because the game of money and power can never be won Now plummet - down the waterfalls and past the muddy jewels You'll flow out the discharge system and into a scummy pool Beneath the broken sky of the desert & it's unwritten canon of war Where each man acts on a sinister standard's accord If words are recanted - they're supplanted with swords No high treason convenes where there are no bannermen born.. There are no castes nor crests of the land Take what you can take and leave the rest to the sand The treachery's planned, soon as the hilt hits the hand As soon as death is given the chance - he strikes and takes all of it You could never hide behind the nightshade of politics With just an axe, a few crops, and a hut riddled with cracks But the clever merchants could never take what little they have.. Each nomad and priest, every merchant and thief Looks to the wall in the South, the shield of the North Mutter the same wish, they feel to the core To whatever they believe in, or whatever they doubt "Just let the wall stand strong just keep the wickedness out" |
03-12-2014, 01:07 AM | #2 |
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This didn't get much proper feedback because I fucked up the battle.. so have at it. links comin
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