And...The Drumming Stops

It comes to this...a vivid line
The time is up for the once faithful shrine?
I can't believe how simple it was...
For them to take what I love...what love does.

You cast me down? And mock my being?
Now I can't believe what I'm seeing.
Never hurt...nor never lied.
I always helped...and always I tried.

I helped your pain...saved your strength from being draned...
But now it seems.....well, I guess it's waned.
Here's a note from a shadow near...
A shadow who knows it's She you so fear.

I say not these words to fright...
Never to hate...and never to spite.
Confusion composes these words of stone...
I'm confused and dazed by the words you have shown.

So here is the message...and take it to heart...
Here are the words...and so here I start...
From the red and from the dark...
A silhoute formed on the horizon stark...

"Heart skips a beat...
A droning commences.
Lips fade to gray
As the widow finch fences.
A tiny babe she fights to protect...
But neigh...the child gives in to neglect.
A mother rotting in her cell...
Cannot seem to break loves spell.
A noise so near? Oh, so you thought...
I will bring you the pain you have brought.
...
"The pain is that she shall forget...
The fear is there...you could never tell.
The reality is that there was a you...
But you gave that up...now we can't trust you.
We're moving on for more...tangible light...
Your weaknesses are gone for the night.
Weakness cannot be...
If there is no purpose to pursue.
So let her rot in her worried heart...
She worried for you...now you've torn her apart.

"Keep these words close...though they'll try to make them disappear. You know me...I say the truth.
They banished her...They've chained you with complacency.
Now...if you'll be so kind...
Let me tend to my broken child...
To whom...

"You have betrayed."