Death and Decay

Where winter carved the mountain stone Scurvey walked the peaks alone The frozen wild stood at his side Then something ancient crossed his way It killed the bear who would not obey Dragged his spirit back through flame And left a monster with his name Green fire burned through broken veins For years he wore immortal chains Until the slave refused command And broke the runes with his own hand He wandered home through ice and storm Then found a wolf girl in the snow Bare feet frozen nowhere to go She saw the nightmare others fled Looked up at him and asked for bread He fed her first and stayed awhile And death learned love through Eves smile His darkness stained her dagger night But never touched her living light Eve calls Scurvey comes Through holy fire and beating drums Let cities burn let kingdoms fall For his daughter hed face them all He would slaughter worlds to give her bread Or kneel to gods to warm her bed Hell sees a monster cruel and wild He sees only his beloved child Then angels fell from skies of gold With sacred chains and prayers of old Upon his flesh a mark burned red Ragnarok wakes if he lies dead They dared not kill the thing they feared So light became the cage they reared They sealed him where no sun could shine And Eve set out to cross the line She left the mountains on her own With fathers dagger all shed known Sophia ruled her kind No succubus could match her might Only the Demon King stood above Yet she controlled him through his love Eve stole her jewel from guarded halls Was caught yet somehow did not fall Sophia spared the fearless thief Amused beyond her own belief Then Sophia touched the dagger blade Her ancient laughter frayed She knew the deepest pits of Hell Yet nothing there had felt this fell Death decay corruption hate A presence twisted beyond its fate A shadow strong enough to bring A shiver even to Hells king Who gave you this the Princess cried Eve took the dagger to her side My dad she said as though it clear And silence answered cold and sheer How could a thing of hate and pain Love without demanding gain Sophia had to know his name What creature made Hell feel tame She let Eve keep the jewel shed claimed And bound its chain so Eve was traced She left her throne her court her game And followed Eve toward Scurveys flame Beyond the walls of holy light They found the prison burning white Sophia felt him through the stone The dagger was a ghost alone A walking doom behind the wall Then Scurvey saw Eve through the flame His fury spoke her name Dad she cried and ran ahead The beast that terrified the dead Dropped to his knees and held her tight Darkness embracing living light Sophia watched and understood Love had survived where nothing should Eve calls Scurvey comes Let Heaven fear the coming drums Sophia follows close behind Three impossible souls entwined Hell has its Princess death its Wild Ragnarok burns within the defiled Yet stronger than corruption proved The darkest thing had learned to love