Flesh and Bone

I, who have reigned so long

I, who have borne this crown

I, who have conquered worlds

Who has seen a petal wilt

'Fore a new blossom came forth

Who has commanded the skies

Who has absconded with life

Who has seen a world stilled

By a single word spilled

I, who have come so far

I, who have named the stars

I, who have become the art

Of the bloodied and beaten

Who has dreamed a candle lit

And watched worlds burn

Who has lived a thousand lives

In the blink of a tear-streaked eye

I have worn these walls with my screams

Weakened these bars with my dreams

I have brought the blood soaked sun

Down across shadowy horizons

I have conquered death

With the measured movements of my pen

Scrawled my name into the darkest places

Writ a eulogy that will never be read

I have emptied glasses with murd'rous intent

I have chaptered and sentenced all that I am

Scattered each page 'cross the hearts

Of a thousand desperate souls, each made whole

By the letters contained therein

I have lived in the fingertips of lovers

Who dared taste the forbidden

Who sinned without repentance

And learnt passion in the face

Of consequence, I have been

I have existed, I have lived

And accomplished all these wondrous feats

Through a million bottles of ink

Who shared with me their dreams

Their desires, their needs

Who shared with me a fire that refuses to blink

Even in the face of the greatest winds

What man would dare fault me, for giving it all

Whose mundane world would never unfurl

Into something to be considered living at all

I, who have reigned so long

I, who have named the stars

I, who have known both martyr and murderer

Within the walls of my own heart

I hunger for more, lust for the war

That can only be provided

By the devil inside me

That can only be decided

By the end of dreams, that have and will ever be

Eternal.