The Blessing of Death

Come to me now in your perfection, Goddess, the queen destroyer Guide my hands dark huntress in my acts of aggression Curse my enemies from my sight, bodies turned back to dust Their names burned from the histories, scattered into the wind In the dead of night, all alone out in the darkness I can feel her presence resonating within I can see the beast through the trees, hungering for my flesh And he is brutally fast, but I am faster I bathed in the blood of the kill I took his hide and flesh I returned to the elders I returned a hero She comes to me at night, the queen of my mortal world Drunk on lust and wine, beautifully deceiving In my good fortune, I not see the vipers The daggers hidden under perfumed silk And the oncoming darkness, soon approaching Scoffed at in arrogance, pride my undoing It had been decades since the night out in the forest My kingdom stood mighty and strong But the darkness came, destroying our defenses And the knife came to find me in my back As the steel found its mark, the final gates fell Mistress of destruction, come to collect