Breath

loss

Breath

 

 

 

Storm

Wind, rain

Lightning blast

Thunder power

Nature’s wrath, war path

Clouds in flight; clash and flash

Cold and damp, wet and weary

Sounds of fury, lost in winter

No need to hold me, drowning slowly

Tidal wave, water grave, it won’t behave

 

Swirling, bubbling, boiling, destroying

Murderous bent merciless intent

Hell bound, heaven sent, pagans wake

Death hound, vicious sound, fire lake

Gathering smoke, no hope

Brimstone smell, farewell

Lamentation

Negation

The last

Storm

 

(from death’s book of “recollections”)

 

 

ONLY THE WOUNDED BLEED

 

XVI

 

Adam cut open the root of the Great Tree of Knowledge and drained it’s black sap into a bowl. Eve plucked an apple from its branch and set it beside the bowl filled with the blood of the Tree. As they both stared at their destiny Adam said:

 

Let’s drink of its blood and eat of its fruit and then uproot the pretender who has chained us in this web of ignorance that has clouded our minds.

 

The snake watched as Adam and Eve drank the blood of the root and took a bite of the fruit and when they finished, a black mist oozed out from the snakes body and headed off to the red fire blazing in the horizon. The poor snake was dumbified with confusion.

 

As they drank the last sip and ate the apple to its core the skies opened up and released its anger on the fallen children of Paradise. Hammering thunder voiced it wrath as torrential rains, howling winds and lightening bolts that threatened to set the garden ablaze descended on the helpless apostates. They cowered in fear while drowning in their own despair. As the blood and the fruit worked its way into the core of their souls they began to remember all that they were.

 

Adam remembered the first time he woke and it was Lilith by his side and it was she who was the great love of his life. How could he have let himself to forget her. He remembered his children, Kali, Mitheriel, Kea, Azriel and Eve. The women whom he wife’d with was but his own daughter, whom he led down this empty path, due to his own selfish hunger and venal needs. Shame and disgust at himself filled his heart. And he remembered his wish he made with God, that She come unto him and satisfy his desires. He cringed in horror at this blasphemy and perversion committed against his creator. He lay in the mud huddled with Eve, praying for oblivion.

 

Eve too remembered the life she had before her wish was fulfilled.  She regretted her recent transgressions towards God and her arrogant and frivolous behavior she exhibited while in her forgetful state, but unlike Adam, she was not racked with guilt and disgust for the sin of loving a man, even more then God, or wishing that he love her as she him. Who was she to love, if not Adam; for she was molded in his image with similar temperament and desires. She followed her heart and although it led to this calamity, the only crime that she felt that she committed was one of foolishness. And she did so love God but She wasn’t flesh and bones as was Adam and kissing the air wasn’t nearly as satisfying as kissing warm lips. And she remembered when God came into her and took control of her mind and body. She retained some glimpses of what God was, what regret can there be in that, she was touched by God and used to make a child by God, what curse was their in that. So as she lay in the mud huddled with Adam, her only thoughts were to comfort the man she loved, for he truly needed her now…

 

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All that was left for Death to do was wait. The Second Circle of Eden was no longer a re-creation of heavens city where ITS former selves once played and laughed in. ITS fire seared away its static perfection and in its place mortality reigned. Entropy not ecstasy was the order of the day.  Life, death, order and chaos now intermingle together in natures chaotic soup creating a fragile balance between the cycles of life and death with Death as its arbitrator. Erosion, disease, decay and destruction will be Death’s allies and mortality its friend.

 

The former angels of Gabriella and the elementals of the Second Circle of Eden watched in dreaded awe at this new Power that walked amongst them. They were afraid to approach IT for fear of offending IT and having ITS gaze directed at them. But they needed to know their place in the new scheme of things, so they counseled with one another and elected Kezefa, one of the chieftains of Gabriella’s former legion, to approach Death and ask of IT its intentions and who is IT allied with, Lucifina or Lucifer.

 

Kezefa was none to happy at being picked for this assignment, for she did so enjoy existence, and looking into the Eyes of Death and asking of IT to explain ITSELF was not a task to be taken lightly. She approached the outer edges of the circle where the fire blazed, and standing next to a tree that was gnarled and twisted with decay, stood Death. Oh, what a terrible sight to behold, this monolith of death with fetid breath and eyes red with wrath. Kezefa swooned as her wings flapped back in fear but she somehow managed to gather up her courage to approach IT and bow before IT and in a trembling voice say:

 

OH Great THInG of GOD, I humble myself before You and seek Your permission to ask of Your intentions toward us and to also Inquire, of whose allegiance do You side.

 

Kezafa turned white with fright as Death grabbed onto her shoulders and lifted her up so that they were eye to eye and in the lowest of whispers  said. 

 

My dearest Kezafa, why do you tremble so, look closer, did you forget me so soon…

 

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Lucifina of the Morning Sun and Joshua, the Son of God and of Man with legions of angels in tow were readying to depart the inner gardens of Eden for their meeting with Lucifer of the Morningstar. As the trumpets were about to sound upon their leaving, one of Lucifina’s Watchers, the angel Penemue, burst forth before Lucifina and in agitated manner and voice said unto Her:

 

Adam and Eve, the hope of Mankind, have defied your edict and have sipped from the root and eaten of the fruit from the Great Tree of Knowledge. The bells of exile have been rung, we only await your command to execute their departure from those sacred grounds which they have defiled.

 

Lucifina of course knew all about Adam and Eve’s transgression and all that led up to it,  (for was She not the Voice of God), but the formalities of paradise dictated that any transgression be properly recorded and announced. She directed Her angels to stand down while she attended to this matter and when She returned they would depart in haste for Her meeting with the Lord Lucifer…

 

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Lucifer of the Morningstar, Lilith the Queen of Hell and Sateen the daughter of God and of Woman with their hell hounds and angels in tow, where welcomed with great fanfare by the Archangel Mikealla, Lucifina’s second in command, to the Third Gate of Paradise. Mikealla bowed before this dark assembly and bid them all to partake of the nectar while they waited for the gathering to begin.

 

As Lucifer entered the outer circle of Eden, His memories drifted to the time of the Great Sundering. GOD in HIS rage at having HIS dreams diminished ripped into EDoni’s SeLf Made Ones, where He and Lucifina dwelled in the city of Their dreams, and unleashed HIS Fire of Judgment. All of heaven trembled as HE said:

 

OH My EDoNi- YoU dare to hide and make new dreams without MY consent! You dare to put YoUrSeLf above GOD by thinking that YoU can separate YoUrSeLf from ME! YoU dare to let the urgings of YoUr Dark Seed beguile YoU into hubris and apostasy! No more will YoU be a mirror of ME and share all of MY totality. Your dream halves will supplant YoU and the Dark Seed I will throw out into the abyss where His light will forever dim and His home will be misery and He will forever sing:

 

 

Forever black, forever night

Never again to see the light

Blinding black, lightless night

Once bright, once bright once bright

 

Cold dark light

Cruel black night

In hell will I sing and be tonight

To wander hopeless and alone

In this pitiless pit I now call home

 

The beast howls! The beast roars!

My bellies raw, my knees are sore

I suffocate~ I supplicate~ I salivate

In the darkness~ in the dirt~ forever hurt

 

Bent and broken, worn and beat

No retreat, complete defeat

In anguished lament I forever sing

 

Dark light, black night, once pure, once bright

 

And GOD unleashed HIS Fire rage on EDoNi and what was once whole was ripped asunder and all the angels that laughed  and played under Eden’s bliss, within the dreamscape, were ripped apart like rag dolls, and all of Eden was set ablaze. EDoNi’s dreams turned to mist and disappeared into the void. All that were One were now two, laying naked and bare on heavens stone with no dreams to shield them. Lucifer begged GODS forgiveness but HE was deaf to Him. He then asked Lucifina to speak on His behalf, but out of fear of offending GOD, She remained silent. GOD then scooped up Lucifer and all His dark seeds in HIS GODLY HAND and with a mighty breath blew them out of heaven and into the abyss…

 

Lucifer was bolted back to His senses by a wolf gnawing on His leg. He picked up the wolf and smacked it on it snout where it whimpered like that of a child. Lucifer handed the wolf to Lilith and said;

 

Keep closer watch of that little demon and tell Her to change to proper form or I’ll give Her more then a slap.

 

Lucifer was in a foul mood and it seemed to get worse as the moon started to rise….

 

 

Author's Note

I know there are no such words as dumbified or wife'd- made them up for this made of story

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The beast howls! The beast roars!
My bellies raw, my knees are sore
I suffocate~ I supplicate~ I salivate
In the darkness~ in the dirt~ forever hurt

I love this stanza here, I can feel the core of this.
The feed off the the darkness.
Yes! it comes as sheer delite to see lucifier in a foul mood
Powerful write here.

Ah! I make up words too sometimes
only to get corrected by people.