Mountebank

By Abhoria

On Abhoria

Released on February 4, 2022

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The gifts that I offer

Practical or advised

They will only serve to

Raise your status to lies

Trust not what you've heard of me

For that is no more than my enemy's lies

Vile slander from those jealous of my clout

But surely one such as you can see the truth

My facts may seem little more than fiction

Successes detached from reality

But know that every word is pure

Untruths cannot pass through this maw obscured

Make me a proposal

A small sacrifice

That which you'd scarcely think to live without

Without thinking twice

What is it that you desire most?

To be worshippеd, to be praised or to be fеared?

For there is no power that I cannot grant to you

If there is no price you would not be willing to pay

Make me a proposal

A grand sacrifice

That which you could never live without

Without thinking twice

Your life is ever fleeting

By my benefaction

Why choose to crawl towards death when you could live forever more?

My methods may seem immoral

But worth the cost to be immortal

Don't fear that you may be deceived

Dream instead of your pain's reprieve

Acceptance of what I solicit

Your immolation will suffice

Perhaps I wasn't quite explicit?

I'll leave you cold

So now I turn to slink away

Another victim in my wake

Already I feel my craving growing cold

Growing cold