Bathory Aria

Snuffed tapers sighed
 As Death left impressing
 His crest of cold tears on the Countess
 Benighted like ill-fated Usher
 The House of Bathory shrouded
 'Neath grief's dark facade
 If only I could have wept
 In mourning by Her side
 I would have clasped Her so tight
 Like storm-beached Aphrodite
 Drowned on Kytherean tides
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 And Kissed Her
 For from Her alone
 My lips would have known
 Enigmas of shadowy vistas
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 Where pleasures took flesh
 And pain, remorseless
 Came freezing the breath
 Of raucous life hushed unto whispers
 
 Benighted
 Inhaling the pale waning moonlight that crept
 Through the crypt of Her Lord who so lucidly slept
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 Benighted
 Exhaling the wail of black widowhood's toll
 Waxing eternal night entered Her soul
 Now haranguing grey skies
 With revenge upon life
 Gnathic and Sapphic
 Needs begged gendercide
 Delusions of Grandier denounced the revolt
 Of descrying cursed glass, disenchanted in vaults
 Encircled by glyphs midst Her sin-sistered cult
 With hangman's abandon She plied spiritworlds
 To Archangels in bondage
 From light to night hurled
 Cast down to the earth where torment would unfurl
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 But soon
 Her tarot proved
 Hybrid rumours spread like tumours
 Would accrue
 And blight Her stars
 However scarred
 To better bitter truths
 Of cold bloodbaths
 As bodies rose
 In rigid droves
 To haunt Her from their
 Shallow burials imposed
 When wolves exhumed
 Their earthen wombs
 Where heavy frosts had laboured long
 To bare their wounds
 To the depths of Her soul they pursued
 Wielding their poison they flew
 Like a murder of ravens in fugue
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 And knowing their raptures
 Would shatter Her dreams
 She clawed blackened books for damnation's reprieve
 Baneful cawed canons on amassed enemies
 So Hallow's Eve
 As She received
 Like Bellona to the ball
 Those enemies
 Fell-sisters heaved
 Her torturies
 Cross stained flagstones
 To Her carriage reined to flee
 But She knew She must brave the night through
 Though fear crept a deathshead o'er the moon
 Like a murder of ravens in Fugue
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 For each masked, jewelled gaze held dread purpose
 Horror froze painted eyes to cold stares
 And even Her dance
 In the vast mirrors cast
 Looked the ill of Her future
 If fate feasted there
 In an age crucified by the nails of faith
 When rank scarecrows of christ blighted lands
 An aloof Countess born an obsidian wraith
 Dared the abyss knowing well She was damned
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 Her life whispered grief like a funeral march
 Twisted and yearning, obsessed and entranced
 With those succumbing to cruelty
 Crushed 'neath the gait of Her dance
 A whirlwind of fire that swept through the briers
 Of sweet rose Her thickets of black thorn had grasped
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 She demanded the Heavens and forever to glean
 The elixir of Youth from the pure
 Whilst Her lesbian fantasies
 Reamed to extremes
 O'er decades unleashed
 Came for blood's silken cure
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 But Her reign ended swiftly
 For Dark Gods dreamt too deep
 To heed Her pleas
 When Her gaolers were assailed
 With condemnations from a priest
 Who'd stammered rites
 In the dead of night
 For maidens staining winding sheets
 And She postured proud
 When Her crimes were trowelled
 And jezebelled to peasant lips
 Though She smelt the fires
 That licked limbs higher
 To the tortured cunts of accomplices
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 So ends this twisted fable's worth
 And though spared the pyre's bite
 By dint of nobled bloodlined birth
 Her sins (crimes) garnered Her no respite
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 Forever severed from the thrill of coming night
 Where slow Death alone could grant Her flight
 "The Spirits have all but fled judgement
 I rot, alone, insane
 Where the forest whispers puce laments for me
 From amidst the pine and wreathed wolfsbane
 Beyond these walls, wherein condemned
 To the gloom of an austere tomb
 I pace with feral madness sent
 Through the pale beams of a guiltless moon
 Who, bereft of necrologies, thus
 Commands creation over the earth
 Whilst I resign my lips to death
 A slow cold kiss that chides rebirth
 Though one last wish is bequeathed by fate
 My beauty shalt wilt, unseen
 Save for twin black eyes that shalt come to take
 My soul to peace or Hell for company"
 (To peace or hell for company)
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 My soul to Hell for company