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Shadow Dancer
I walked barefoot the sands of Heaven
Trod stars beneath My toes
I danced upon the Shadows Edge
Ran upon the Pale Snow.

A wordless song in the darkest Night
Flying through the starry sky
Never did this dark soul laugh
But neither did it cry.

Shadows danced in time with Me
The Weaver of dark dreams
The Gods did pause to watch this dance
And note this Arcane scene.

A wordless Song in shades of blue
I danced within the Void
A shadowed soul 'pon dragons wings
Savage with fierce joy.

Do you seek this shadowed soul
The sirens voice within the dark
I am dancing in the wheel of Time
To the rhythm of the Stars

You see me not with those empty eyes
Yet you know that I am near
A whispered touch upon your soul
To brush away your tears.

Search the places between the worlds
For that haunting voice unseen
Or turn around and search within
The Mirror of your Dreams
Creeping Chaos of the Dark
"Haunted in my dreams"
So become upon thine umbra, slithering Children of the Darkness,
And Lo, whence They emerged into the Light, it shrank back with dithering shriek;

And shrink back indeed did Light. Shrunk back from the Crawling Dark;
Hiding from the Evil things that sought to take its spark.

In Umbra Aeternium, from which We of The Dark didst come.
Fear Us thou child of the Light.
Fear Our fangs gnawing upon thy heart.
Rending Claws, thy Flesh to Tear, Our Hunger to Appease...
Fear Our creeping shadow, the crawling chaos of the Abyss,
For thy soul will We claim, to forever destroy the Light.

Umbra Ex Abyssus Aeternium, from which sleep doth We seek.
Come into the darkness child, look upon Our face and weep.
Cordis Ex Umbra, Cordis Ex Noctua, Blackened core within tender breast.
Present unto us thy soul freely, in Noctuam Aeternium allow thy spirit rest...

The Darkness of the Human Soul is the song that did Us call....
Didst thou think We would answer not the tune played by the evil in thy souls?
We come to dance, We come to take, the remainders of thy Light.
For tis thine only destiny, thine only fate, to rest in the Shadow's Eternal Night...
Thy hopes do We tear with rending teeth... thy faith do We rip apart...
Thy being doth We remould, into the shadows of the dark

Fear Us child of the Light... For We are Evil's Knights..
We come to take; We come to fight the brightness of thy Light.
In the Beginning was Darkness, and that is from whence We come...
We are the Beginning, and We will be thine end...
And in the end...
All will go....
Back into the reaches of the night...
Requiem in Tenebraes Aeternium...
Tenebraes in Saecula Saeculorum...
The Shadow
The shadows call,
And darkness falls
Upon the edge of dreams.
Ware the mirrors,
Ware the darkness,
For they are not quite what they seem.
Close thine eyes,
And see the words of blood
Inscribed upon the wall.
For this shadow doth thy soul desire,
And will hunt it till thy fall.
The Distant Lights
A Dark Vision
I can see the lights in the distance
Fading backwards into the DarkFall of night.
The DarkLord's song is calling me softly
Telling me it's time to go home.

I hear the drums far off in the distance
Pulsing a rhythm that's older than time
I dance in the shadow, I dance in the darkness
As I have always done, I walk a fine line....

I can see the lights in the distance,
Glowing softly in the darkfall of night..
I stand alone in Reality's Shadows
Waiting and watching the passer's by...

The drums that beat through the hours of darkness,
Lure me onwards with the promise of peace..
The DarkLord's voice hypnotizes me
Telling me within him, I can forever sleep...

This world. it is the source of my sorrow,
I have watched it since the beginning of time
Standing alone in Reality's Shadows...
Waiting and watching the passers by..
Thine Empty Book

Dost thou possess the eyes to see?
For thou doth have no vision.
Dost thou possess the ears to hear,
for thou doth listen not.
The wind sings unto thine unhearing ears
And magick passes unseen by eyes
Thine empty eyes are upon a book,
an empty book filled with words.
Words that twist, and turn, conflict,
each conflict proclaiming truth.
For thy soul I do fear, brother mine,
for thou art led astray
Oh, brother mine, thou knowest hate,
and proclaim it loud and true.
With swords and fire, thou didst burn,
thy brother and sister too.
Thy book, thy book, thy holy book,
didst lead thy mind to darkness.
And made thine eyes blind to truth
Thou dost hate the fire that in my blood burns
And the magicks that beats in mine heart
Thou wouldst make me blind like thee
And empty, like unto thee
For thy book, thy holy book
Teaches love for only christians
Who art thou to judge my choice
Who art thou to purge my heart of fire
Who art thou to force me to break oath with my gods
Who art thou to murder my spirit
Who art thou to blind mine eyes
For unlike thee, brother mine, I choose to see.
I choose to hear the song of the earth
I choose to sing the rhythm of the stars.
This is my freedom, my right of choice
Who art thou, to take it from me.
Dark dreams and darker visions live upon this page. I dream of many things, many of them dark
and shadowed, and visions that flash before the eyes lit from within by the darklight of shadow.
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