by
Anonymous
THE CONQERING WORM
Terrible spires & monoliths
under unvanquished skies
A vast ivory-black tower
in Night's hellish-black mire
A brooding dark power
a spreading black world
Some said: It's Babylon
the abominable realm of Man
Standing tall like a steadfast giant
eclipsing the stars, usurping heavens
a phantom world in the sickening light
a vast monument of perverseness
Now We worship Satan, the Bringer Of Light
Oh you, Selfish Father, you left us on that horrid night
We forgot Eden, the Garden of Joy
our eternal life like a dream dissolved
O, God of Almighty Heavens
who will save us from perdition?
Shall our immortal vigour return
or shall we drown with the Stygian flood?
A SERPENT SONG
A serpent slumbers in the garden of innocence
hidden from cherubs' glowing eyes
Father of lust, sentinel of knowledge
who saw the angels learning to fly
"I show you a world of dreams and desires
a sweet asylum beyond the clouds
Travel me through sunken empires
to the home of joy and equilibrium
While the gods were fighting for the soul of Man
I regained lost paradise.
So drop the burden of millenniums
and follow me my dearest child"
MOTHER OF ALL BEINGS
(The self-begetting deity)
The steadfast Earth shuddered
roaring fires ran over heavens
in tears & howling embodied
a female form: Mother of all beings
Like a faint shadow she rose from the ground
trembling & pale like a new-born child
beneath her feet a vast, unprolific ground
above her head the indefinite space
For ages she wandered in the forsaken wilderness
searching for life-forms
She found nothing but a dire emptiness
a soul-shuddering Vacuum
Whirlwinds of sulphurous smoke
torrents of lava, vapour & clouds
terrible thunders tore the mantle of Earth
unquenchable fires consumed the ground
Her lamenting voice wept upon the void
but there were no one to hear her
She was alone in a world of inertia
divided by tears & sorrows
From the vast deluge of her tears
an unfathomable ocean rose
An ocean teeming with strange organisms
and creatures bred in sorrow
Various forms of being crawled out from the sea
and mustard around the great Mother
And she rejoiced beholding her daughters & sons
and gave them the Earth & the Skies to conquer
Black Roses is the story of Theresa Zane, who returns to her childhood home in the wake of a ruined marriage and failed career to live with her father. Once there, she encounters the man of her dreams � literally. He is an incubus, with the power to invade the minds of sleeping women and make their most forbidden fantasies come true. Now he wants Theresa, and will do anything to possess her. Even kill. To "marry" this soulmate, Theresa is drawn into a mystery of sex and death a hundred years old.
