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Chapter 18 - Gatekeeper

The newest resident finds her way here,

She sees me and pleads her escape from fear;

I show her an abandoned building, 

where bats fly in twilight's creep, 

guarding secrets buried too deep. 

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The bats symbolize her discreet disease;

The illusions keep facts unseen,

she cannot be set free,

her eyes still glued to the screen.

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"You've bound your willpower to the pigs,

My Bird Men will exhume your blame.

The pigs twist books and sermons to antagonize lives,

societal regulations bind your stubborn cries. 

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The bats make you face your delusions,

Owl minds the Keep's confusions

the house is eerie and creepy like a darkened mind,

sleeping amongst change and time. 

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"I had been torn like paper once upon a time

The patriarchy has shifted its rule 

it's now an oligarchy they use 

and yet, you seem confused."

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Her mind rejects the accusations,

She pretends that the disillusion doesn't exist,

and screams that I am a monstress exploiting vengeance:

a fiend -----

Frankenstein's creature,

and torment those that never hurt me 

just so people notice me. 

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A vortex opens,

"No more enchantment,

delusions cannot alter your perception."

I tell her that she must open her eyes,

or The Keep will be her demise. 

Through the beam, she sees the meek,

And screams, "thanks for destroying my dreams!

All because you are weak,

I am now in The Sheep Keep!"

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My bird's and I use our sacred symbol;

this woman will now die, 

It is now her time!

She will be mine!

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These victims threaten her elective

The truth punches her directive. 

These bats soar through the air,

She had chosen her path of despair,

My, my, I have a lovely lair. 

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