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From ash we are made gold
LAMENT OF THE DAMNED
(Big Ty to Nozoa for help)
I sit here, lamenting my state, and it came to me; I possess all there is to possess. I am everything there is to be - but better. I am a God, and a sick one at that, for what God questions himself, his own faith- his own nature? So now I remain, rotting away endlessly but unable to die. Starving but unable to eat. Craving a high which I may never repeat. I have forgotten what it means to be alive, and I will never get to experience death. What kind of existence is this? A fool I was. “Salvation” I thought. “Godhood” I still think.
My skin crawls, my throne festers, my crown beckons; my court answers.
For I am nothing but I have everything. With the snap of a finger, a city is razed. The flick of a wrist, a dead body is raised. But it’s lost its meaning. The power I now have has lost its allure, its charm; the illusion has been broken. And now my chronicles have been left unspoken, and those few who still recall my name reside by my side in a tomb unopened.
That feeling, oh! The feeling. Yes, now I recall. The scent of crimson ichor coating the whip as I struck it. It was so real. It was true. I was ravenous for their screams and cries for mercy. It gave the air a certain profound freshness; a fleeting nirvana. How I wish for it once more. The touch of her hands upon my skin. But now I have no skin. I am a shell - an amalgamation of flesh and bone. And my voice; sweet like syrup, but ripe with decay like an apple that fell too far from its tree.
A life of strife, ambition, and power, all up to this moment beyond itself. I am empty, my soul long sacrificed in pursuit of selfish desire. Flesh and bone, I simply am.
My mind perpetuates, endlessly drifting in and out of places unimaginable to feast on truths incomprehensible. My throne has become one with me, as I am one with it. A crown in the place of a soul. My Bones brittle, but unbreaking. My Blood dried and tainted. I am not dead; For I am death. I am a God, a parable, a symbol - a meaning. I am eternal.