Terminus Mortis
02-16-09, 08:53 PM
I am the farthest right hand of a long forgotten god;
I am the comet which levels a thousand years of civilization;
For it is through my process, my spread, and even my denial that dynasties fall;
My blood has been shed across the pages of ill-begotten tomes;
It has been splashed across walls, floors, and hands;
The sanguine of the scribes used to write what madmen dub the Mandate of Heaven;
And through centuries I have evolved from image to eloquence;
From prokaryote to the great winged dragon, Hidden, Divine, Heavenly, and Nidhogg;
And so strong have I burned the bridges of civilization;
And do I rend the beloved asunder with my lies;
Yet it is I who drafted such bridges and enticed such love;
For these mortal fools through me dig their own graves in turn;
And as they print hear "Dead man walking!";
Dead men walking;
And so they breed me within themselves;
In turn I burst and spread by respected men;
Lords, philosophers, revolutionaries;
Until it comes that I have destroyed them all;
Every generation of wasted blood;
And as the phoenix rises from the ashes so too shall I;
Bred into a new world by the very creatures whom I shall destroy.
-Wellington, Sean Patrick
I am the comet which levels a thousand years of civilization;
For it is through my process, my spread, and even my denial that dynasties fall;
My blood has been shed across the pages of ill-begotten tomes;
It has been splashed across walls, floors, and hands;
The sanguine of the scribes used to write what madmen dub the Mandate of Heaven;
And through centuries I have evolved from image to eloquence;
From prokaryote to the great winged dragon, Hidden, Divine, Heavenly, and Nidhogg;
And so strong have I burned the bridges of civilization;
And do I rend the beloved asunder with my lies;
Yet it is I who drafted such bridges and enticed such love;
For these mortal fools through me dig their own graves in turn;
And as they print hear "Dead man walking!";
Dead men walking;
And so they breed me within themselves;
In turn I burst and spread by respected men;
Lords, philosophers, revolutionaries;
Until it comes that I have destroyed them all;
Every generation of wasted blood;
And as the phoenix rises from the ashes so too shall I;
Bred into a new world by the very creatures whom I shall destroy.
-Wellington, Sean Patrick