Behind the books you left me
To looked over the shining sea
Locked away from the world oh so free
I'd sing for the birds, fish, and trees
Staring at me from plated waters
You kidnapped me from blissful laughter
You openly watched my my struggle, vain
While upon your demon train
Now dashing through these nightmares
The demons screech with blankened stares
Around your world of screaming shadows
Their miserable sounds like demon crows
Blood boiling up my throat from before
That hollow note peirces my core
Screams choked by an injured soul
And fear now takes it's bloodied toll
Trapped here now without escape
Death would be a better fate
I'm damned to roam this darkened land
Where life clings on with icy hands
Being punished for some unkown crime,
so I'll never hear that bells last chime,
commited in an age forgotten
a child of darkness now begotten.
A river of blood rages by,
my ebony wings limply lie,
and beneath the blackened, twisted trees,
chains bind me to lands like these.
A past-life beauty, greusome made,
you brought me here, a trust betrayed.
And in a hell-turned chapter of a happy story,
you made me a daughter of Purgatory.
(Copyright Michell Santiago 2006)