Leviathan, The Girl

What a vision of darkness, creeps in with

Desperate sharpness, lecherous grafting

Of knowledge to my young mortal subconscious

Words writ by breath of the ancients

Wiser than even the pagans, or the wizened

Old men with wands and white beards

That once were ensconced in my pages

Obfuscated by doom, and laden with arduous

Tasks are the pathways laid out for the lot of us

Mages and witches and princes and maids, pages

With inches of space for mistakes

I am the beast, I am the light, I am

The blighted being cursed with sight

I am the God who created a world, I am leviathan, the girl

I can do it on my own, but you're a hero after all

And we may think our sacrifice is just but

Pride comes right before the fall

The cascade of rain on my needles, a hand grasping

Tight to the bottle, of a woman with untapped potential

The ennui of too late and too little

Our failures have made, a bridge for success

If our game is half played, then who's played the rest of it?

Heroes we were in a universe doomed

Soldiers in battles best left un-exhumed

I am the beast, I am the light

I am the blighted being cursed with sight

I am the God who created a world, I am leviathan, the girl

And I can do it on my own

We can do it on our own

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam