Manticore - Cradle Of Filth

«Write a story, Any story

But let it have dragons…»

O Gods of war

In the jungle corridor

I feel your haughty presence

Feasting the Manticore

She stalks the shadows, burning

The smoke is thick and reeks of blood

Her hunger an eternal yearning

Tantric, necromantic

A wank fantasy of faith

She religiously feeds

A feverous all man-eater

In the trees I see

Her eyes like slithering She Of Snakes

Monstrous this Chimera

In her beautiful anger

Screaming from the pulpit

Damnation’s oratory

She is the whispering poisoned dart

And the breath of armageddon all around

The embodiment of evil in a body full of raptures

Anthropophagous

Manticora

Press the silent violin of frisson over horror

In my forced hand

Sphinx will sing her song and coloured in lullabies

Death endorsed invades our lands

Gigantic, pyromantic

A beast of naked flame

Panting blackened masses

From her opulant Godhead

Ill-barred are those tongues

Spread wings eclipse her frame

And in her deep crevasses

Kundalini vents unfed

In darkness

Her fastness threshed with fleshing teeth

She comes to masticate you whole

She is the bane of mothers

Grand Leveller of Maa Kali’s Mardi Gras

What man would damn the world to summon her?

Be still

Pray silence lest she stoops to conquer

The Perverse acid queen

Ten thousand pillars in her heart

Uphold a cracked palace of frozen killers

And the mirror in her soul

Polished black for scrying nightmares

Bubbles with a lust

That yearns to burn again

Razor backed, She attacks

Empire’s battle cat

A creature of the white devil’s rule

Mythical and mystical

Provinces will recall

The swarm of refugees from her pall

Mimicking victims

With a voice of the choicest deadpanned in pain

Awful claws hold rapport

With the skins of mankind

She is the whispering poisoned dart

And the breath of armageddon all around

The embodiment of evil in a body full of raptures

A lick of fire on her lips

As silent as a will o wisp

She comes amongst you all, tigressive

Blazing in her pride

Hellraising horrors from the dark-side…

Manticore