The pious maid undone, the eye that
Clove the raven mirror, she that donned
The spectral mask and kissed the ring
Of primordial power. Emmeline, emboldened,
Cascading in a sea of stars; Emmeline, drowning,
Inexorable the ghostly sepulcher, where dragons
Gorged upon the innocent and the fairest
Pearl did fall; the abyss of wayward wanderers,
A red rose reaving, blue bloods beckoning, their
Lure intoxicating, windswept sighs. Emmeline,
Enshrouded, the citadel fading, the white coat
Blackening, ambition’s baleful song where
Minds dissolve upon the main; a seraph
Staggering, vanquished souls of a waning
Hourglass. Whereon she stepped upon
The bones amidst the mourning of the
Rains, she stepped upon the bones
Ungentle, she stepped upon the bones
Beyond the smoldering steppe, and
Was seared by the sun of a cruel
Dominion; hovering was the deathly
Angel, unwept the dirge of sorrow