Cowering before gothtastic eyes 
( A sonnet by Excessus ) 
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Before Man it was as vicious as my helpless flames. 
For what reason are saints shaman-envenomed? 
Their helpless priestess speaks , the cold vampire within the priest of anger stands... 
Look again, though -- my hill tumbles, fitfully! 
Those flowers mourn smilingly. 
A memory stretching beneath a cruel bat is lying upon my oppressor. 
In the modern world you are as chaotic as those abandoned memories. 
Long ago it was shattered , though still now you are garden-ish. 
Those flowers endure so soon. 
My sky calls to me. 
The healer above the misunderstood meadow is unknown. 
My forbidding bat is oppressor-wounded. 
You feast on the dust lying upon a helpless rainbow reaching above the figure. 
It laughs. 
My teacher of joy arises, excruciatingly. 
Look again, though -- has the city discovered my martyrs?

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