The room was dim,
And I, the great promising
Heiress bowed to him,
His strong legs never missing
From my sight and old battle fields,
Dressed in black and golden shields,
And behind them, he was, over most
Else a non-existent form, a ghost.
His hands slowly reached,
To my streaming eyes and my chin,
For so long to this effigy I had preached
On my knees, till the cold ground tore off my skin,
And so he lifted my chin off the ground,
His hands were ice cold, I have found,
And my eyes scanned his face,
Of silver, steel and endless space.
His eyes coal black and his lips sealed
Shut by death,
Such grave miserable death,
To which his soul must yield.
And I, an heiress of a great world,
Am threatened by the same sword,
But no more, my soul said,
No more holding your legs of stone,
Steady like a statue of a hero, dead,
Buried in me, till I find a grave of my own.
So I stood up, hands free to cherish,
The highlands of my own kingdom
To be, where you, O Prince, will parish
For the sake of my own freedom,
For the sake of my own beauty,
Haven’t you said, it’s always been your duty
To bow to me, so how am I the one
Bowing and shielding my eyes from your sun?
And still you claim you want me,
That when you look, it’s me you see,
So tell me, my beloved Prince,
About what you truly see
When you close your eyes and ever since
You did, have you even once dreamt of me?
Or have the lust for the virgins’ blood
Blind your soul and in the flood
Of your overwhelming appetence for
Their moans, you’ve lost the way to my door?
I will not apologize for my attitude, my lord,
No more will I be a slave to your soul,
By sin and dust, by sinew and cord,
No more, heart and head and silent call
To gold and black covers of a ghost,
I will not apologize for being lost.
Because I am forever found,
Sadly for you, my place is not the ground,
And though with every call in my body,
I showed you how I love you,
With my all that’s in me, be it calm or bloody,
I’ll also show you how I hate you
To the core with all what’s burned and burning,
I hate you with the passion of loving
And with the madness of every single thought
In my endless realm you’ve once sought.
But there's one thing you didn't account for,
When you lead me in and shut the last door,
That I am the key to my own
Existence, it’s in my hand alone
To bow and break or to stand
And turn your heart into sand
Swiftly slipping from my hand to the wind,
That carries it far to the world’s end,
For I am the heiress,
The queen in the making,
The cruel mistress,
And the witch in the waking,
I am the virgin’s blood spilled
At your door, it was my will for you,
And the heart that you’ve once killed
To escape all what’s old, all what’s true,
It was your sacrifice made unwillingly,
Truly for me, but for you seemingly.
So in this kingdom, take your right place,
Bring your knees to the ground,
Let the cold silver of your face,
Shine upon a hell profound,
And recognize your fate that’s grim,
Under my heels and twisted waist
In veils of scarlet and dim light,
At the shores of royal lips you’ll never taste
At hearts in hands and surging waves
All breaking into rotten graves,
Never to be seen again, just like you,
Bow, O prisoner Prince, to the queen anew.