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Harrying of the Lamb

Dulci o' sweet Dulci,

She's beloved by all the lords,

They gather round so lovingly

To hear her pluck the chords;

O' the harp's sweet symphony she weaves,

Her songs can heal your soul,

They enrapture, soothe and captivate,

She's a treasure wrapped in gold.

Dulci o' sweet Dulci,

She's the light of our small herd.

'Tis no wonder truly why

The dark lord falls fast for her.

She's enraptured even Death himself

With the light her life does shine,

She's desire wrapped in empathy

With a heart so sweet and kind.

Dulci o' sweet Dulci,

Too adorable for Death,

He's turned his tail and run so fast

With nary a note so left.

He wasn't good enough for her,

He did know it deep inside;

Thus left her yearning for his love

To safely guard his pride.

Dulci o' sweet Dulci,

She's the catch of a lifetime.

No wonder then, of all the men,

Proditor was one to climb;

The social ranking she would bring

Was tall enough reward,

For Proditor longed to be so loved

By all the fawning hordes.

Dulci o' sweet Dulci,

Have you heard the tales new?

She's said to bear a child

From Proditor's loins, oh yes it's true!

They've consummated marriage now,

They're bonded till the end,

For what gift is greater than the love

A child can so soft distend.

Dulci, o' sweet Dulci,

It's not your fault but mine,

I romanced you with intent and lust

Your life was by design.

I lied, manipulated, stole

The best years of your life.

It was all for naught,

The pain I've wrought,

I'd say I'm sorry but I'd be lying.

Dulci, o' poor Dulci,

I've lived my life a coward.

There's nothing I can say or do,

To change this pain of ours.

I bargained for my life with yours,

I deserve what fate I've got.

I hope you find some comfort dear,

Lovingly yours,

Proditor.

Awaken my dear sweet Dulci,

Truly it's you, is it not?

I've yearned the decades waiting to see

The face of the one I lost.

Those bastards locked me in here love,

Steered me away from what I want.

I wanted you, I fought for you,

But what I wanted mattered not.

They betrayed me when they locked me up,

Then again when you they'd slain,

I mourned the loss not once but twice,

Now they will know their mistakes were grave.

Dulci, my sweet Dulci,

I offer you a chance,

For vengeance 'gainst the enemy

That pillaged, leaving its mark.

I beseech of you my dear sweet Lamb,

Listen close and hear my voice:

Please don't let these feckless monsters win,

Show them the consequence of their choice.

Go forth in my name,

To show them pain,

Rend their world so damned asunder.

I take no pleasure in their loss,

But it's to be their lives or ours.

Dulci, beloved Dulci,

I'm sorry, it's all I am.

I left you yearning longingly,

Abandoned by your man.

I meant to come, I begged the chance

To live my life with you.

But my siblings had their cruel designs

And so they ran me through.

Dulci, dearest Dulci,

My heart belongs to you.

There's nothing more I want my sweet

Then to spend my life with you.

Free me fast, give me the chance,

To make right what went so wrong.

All I ask for in return,

Is to see your smile

Once more.

(Inspired by and based on the cotl au by @mary-cross, it's absolutely stunning and Mary's a sweetheart please go look at it)

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Pathological Survivor

I know not what past lives you've made,

But still I see without my eyes;

They still do so assail you:

Those memories,

Into stone so steeply set,

As caskets, coffins thrown in lochs

Deep within your mind

Such that you may escape them.

But your pain remains self-evident;

Hidden in such haste

That it remaina so open,

In the shadows your words cast

When you deign to project false light.

Your tongue remains roughshod,

Tacked and restrained hardy to prevent

The slipping of your mind away

Into the obscurity that awaits.

You know not the truth of your life,

So buried even you've forgotten it,

You've already lost yourself from sanity

Into condemnation,

To the madness that awaits you.

You've crafted yourself,

Become that which you feared;

A being whom the fireflies

Don't dare so linger nearby.

You wield:

Wit, claw, your fangs,

Total sharp in equal measure;

To deface your very being,

Create a semblance of the monster,

That which stole your safe haven

Then left you rendered the same creature

By design.

You speak the same falsehoods,

Give way to the same cold cunning,

You're no different of a beast,

Purposefully stitched into much the same genus

As your enemy;

The woodland beast,

That lies beyond in waiting.

You lie, omit and scheme,

Create your false narrative,

Your smile never reaches your eyes -

The truth betrays you.

You've wrapped them round your hand,

They all believe you when you stand:

To speak the words of peace

From little lamb's sermons.

To lie comes so naturally to you,

You've tricked them all so easily

It begs the question:

Who's really lost in these lies?

These wretched foolish followers?

Or is it you?

I hear the truth,

Deep down inside,

Masked and beaten as it is.

No person can bury their pains forever

Though I applaud your attempt at this.

But those that know true pains presence

Will forever know how to hear

The voice of one whom it has kissed.

You cannot hide forever,

But for now your mask remains.

For now it stands the test,

But someday it shall be sundered.

You make it sound so effortless

That I can't help but wonder...

Can they hear it too?

(Inspired by and based on @angy-brows's Hastur oc yellowcat, please check it out it's so good)

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The Son, Calmly Burning

For a moment briefly everlasting,

I felt solemnly secure.

The world -

So ever-moving as it is,

Came to a standstill and seemed so sure

To never have cause to resume.

For a moment brief but oh so cherished,

I felt comfort for all eternity.

As the world stood still

I felt the will,

To fight,

Renew, and resume dying.

In a moment cut so short by life

I knew the world's truth was within my arms.

Such did I hear the call of life,

Alongside the echoes of death surrounding,

The sweetly soothing song.

There will come a time again, I pray,

That God grants me such a peace.

I toil day and night in vein

So long as in my veins

My crimson ichor fails to cease.

I've seen so many fall to dust,

The brave, heroic, caring.

I've buried men I idolised,

While men I hate kept going,

I've watched as blood left veins of ghosts -

As life of theirs stayed fleeting.

But as I stood there,

Heart in arms,

I felt my own peace building.

The fight of life has taken me,

Made me scarred and morals sordid.

Since beloathed uncle drove the knife

I've known naught in life but burden.

If child is father of the man

Then no wonder a weak man he made.

In the fight for life,

He lost to strife,

Now buried in titchy grave.

Childhood smothered in infancy,

Taken by familial cursing,

Life is but a tragedy

When you rely on life's own mercy.

There existed a moment,

For a brief, small time,

Where God showed me true mercy.

When he took from me my burdensome life

And showed me what ought to be.

While I held my life within my arms

I knew just what had come.

I fought so well,

I rest now,

Fear quelled;

As I lay my last beneath,

The calmly burning sun.

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Absence Makes the Heart...

I've grown fonder in your absence

Then I ever dared think or ponder,

The longing rending my chest asunder

Has left me aching from wounds so tender.

I long for your touch,

Your wry little smile

That lights up this dark, cruel world.

I miss you my love, to put it so blunt,

I require the sight of my world.

But in has stepped,

Such a face so familiar

I began to question my senses.

I laid three eyes upon my prize

And beheld your very image.

It took some time, but soon I find

They're not the same as you,

They don't share the memories we made

The love we held so true.

I'm torn apart,

Ripped at the seams -

My dreams to hold you cherished.

I shan't, I won't,

I can't live on,

Without your wondrous presence;

But is it so wrong,

To find respite in that which

Shares your image?

Just for one night,

To hold "you" tight

In order to grin and bear it?

I'm lost to love,

Like my Love, now lost,

The grief so overwhelms me.

I've found lurid comfort,

If just for one night,

'Tis all I deserve for how I failed thee...

Inspired by this Lambswap comic with @strawdool and @duplicitousfate, special thanks to @gotatoastonmyass too for the extended cut ;)

[joffykingdom]

Ode to Self

You and I,

A concept gone,

Once steadfast,

Now mythology.

Where once we lived,

Now time does shift,

And left us more than bargained.

We yearned to touch,

To have and hold

In life so unrewarded;

Usurpation ran amock

In a life so duly thwarted.

I knelt before you every day

And so swore my life in service,

But to see your smile was all I cared

For to hold you and feel wanted.

The crime is done

I've destroyed your life,

Now I ask you here to trust me.

There's nothing left

If I'm to be rebuffed,

Please, my darling,

Hold me.

Inspired by the now lost but still beloved @/theonewhowanks

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Flight from the Nest

There's a feathered spot lane bare

Where once laid head so did my love,

I feel the warmth expire slow

Through night's spent longed-for hugs;

The subtle smell of fresh-preened feathers,

Of soft hoots and long-drawn hums,

There's nothing more I wish for now

Then to caress my poor sweet's tufts:

To feel the glide of feather 'pon fur,

To feel the home's blazing hearth,

To hear the glide of knife, as wood

Becomes adored works of art,

While I read my books,

And learn my songs,

My work's burden made light and snuffed.

I'd waited an eternity,

Without knowing,

To meet your gaze.

I long for you,

I yearn, 'tis true,

These long and sullen days.

But I'll wait thousands more,

Like the days of yore,

Spent nestled beside my patron god.

What's a thousand more?

I know for sure,

You're worth those days in chains.

(Inspired by this post from the ever wonderful @twooftheluckyones, their Boko ship has ruined me it's so beautiful please read it)

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