Cold flesh upon Steel

Cold steel upon flesh

the harbinger of peace buries into your wrist and the pure ichor of the unholy drains away

The dark light of death casts its eye on you and you expect peace, you expect happiness, finally away from the damned earth, full of puppets, marionettes, with painted masks and wooden flesh

But the dark light turns away, the light of heaven vanishes and you face a hell all to real to be called earth.

You were wrong

The pure ichor, the unmasked puppet, the square block in the round peg that was you, had no right to leave.

You should have stayed

instead you closed your eyes and took a leap of faithlessness with faith that the only way to end the torture and find peace was to hurt, cut, hit, claw, tear at yourself until the dream you had of peace enveloped you in a world of pain

And now it's too late

The pure gold ichor of vanity has consumed you and the heartless marionettes march on

through the cut marks on your wrist, storming through your skin, stamping your body into the memories of sorrow that no will ever remember, and the all powerful god that is now draws on them to leave you in dust, for they are blinded by the stars in their eyes

and now you

you, cast into the dark with no intention of returning, must come back

You will be the puppet maker, you will be the dark light of the unworthy with everything to lose, but nothing to gain, you will be the leader

So stand up, your vain less blood regained through the black magic of wakening, for the dream of worthlessness is over, the murky pool of ultimately only regret has been drained leaving nothing in its wake.

So stand up you worthy god, defeater of the beast desire. Take up the rightful place you have strayed from in your vain attempts to seek the stone cold peace you thought to be death

So stand up and take your post as leader of the heartless, the damned that we call humans. The cold metal harbinger has been lifted and the valleys of death upon your skin sealed away. Don't let the unworthy judges bring down your world, you are perfect because you are you, you are all you need to be and all you need to please.