Castle in the Clouds
(The Castle is a real place, visit:
Danvers State Insane Asylum
In the land of all is lost
In the realm of insanity
The Castle sprawls on her hill and stretches to the sky in lazy disregard
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Fear the Castle, flee her minions
Fear the Castle, as she crouches in the clouds
A thousand sightless eyes
Survey her morbid realm
Black asphalt tongue
licks up ants of madness as they crawl into her gaping maw
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The fading light, like
the death of hope, is cast upon her dormered brow by a sun obscured in smoke.
Desperation is written on her doors. With lock and key, they keep the screams
from seeping through the floors. In the gloom, fear rises from her heart. Up
secret stairs, these vast nightmares come searching for their mark. They take
the form of slender pins of steel which silence and divide the minds of
those come here to heal.
The torn skin of her walls
Bleeds dust, choking and dry
This monolith is a prison for the lonely prisoners of the imprisoned mind
Fear the Castle, flee her minions
Fear the Castle, as she crouches in the clouds
She reigns, this gothic goddess. In her crumbling red and gray, she stands alone and impervious to the pain within, seeking nothing
but the succor of madness to fill her veins. Her scars run deep, to the
bedrock, the ledge. As summer heat rises to a leaden, airless sky, the
sickness within her seeps out and turns the fields to brown.
This road to endless hell
Is paved with good intentions
Black tunnels and twisting halls leading from salvation to hell and back again
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