Crooked Leech

By Acranius

On Mercy Denied

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The castle stands upon the mountain's peak

With snow that dances by its twisted spires

The guards​ collect the homeless and the weak

And guide them to a house with beds and fires

The men sing thanks and praise their ​gentle king

For giving them a home as winter swells

The guards ​retreat as seven starts to ring

And echoes from the chapel's aging bells

Within the house the liquor starts to flow

Thе nature of men begins to show

Whеn they demand a ​royal ​crown and cloak

And echoes from the chapel's aging bells

Within the house the liquor starts to flow

The nature of men begins to show

When they demand a ​royal ​crown and cloak

Horizons bend as daylight starts to fall

And stars once timid glisten in the dark

As flames erupt and breathe a bellowed roar

The waves of orange engulf the men alive

Their boiled blood expels from every pore

By order of the​ court​, the leech will not survive

The burning screams of dying men decay

As all the heat

Of their destruction thrives

In breaths of ash the embers fly away

As ordered by the ​court​

No man within survives

Survives