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"Alone With the Tempter"

On Death's midnight hour I had not dream

The days hath gone away -- I couldn't deem

That the elder of these angels left the throne

And flown so sorrowfully by thee alone --

But thy lonesome soul shall limn to see

    Not one hovering spirit free --

And where -- shall the asperity scythe cast

Over visions of the shadowed Past --

   Of torrent of tormenting trauma

Filled with Manichaean mount and karma

  Restlessly rolling down necropolis

Past foot-hills of the dread that drop polis --

Or of the sound of a susurrus winged-sylph whom soar

Yet thunder her voice in a stricken Lion's roar

  And uphold herself on heavens vault

  And dare to curse that its all my fault --

So what now -- what now when the worst

  Is the Devil's tempest durst

      To ever define me to what I am today

           To ever price my soul to what I have to pay

When the final price was paid when the Lord bled fast away.

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May 13, 2012
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