Beauty and the Beast

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written for the contest twisted fairytale sponsored by Sara Jama...
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Here rests the realm of the
thorn-tongued truth ~
a mortal mirage of doomed pentacles,
where forks and kettles speak
the language of witchery,
the dialects of the diabolical,
listening as feral desires fill
the aquatic hues beyond
eclipsed chambers, chained
with lunatic gold ~
where the beast impregnates
the beauty,
and awaits the birth of a tragedy,
born from karmic fangs
carving cruelty in shades of sin.
Once upon a crestfallen fortnight,
beneath a sky adorned with
evil emeralds
and remorseless rubies,
a man seeking a gateway
that imprisons his concubine
finds a field of splinters,
promising a never-ending curse,
leading the beauty through
hallways to where the beast
sits on his unholy throne,
reciting megalomaniac mantras,
rewriting musical madness
with nails and thistles
on the walls of diamond-dusted deceit.
He is finally served the bitter fruits
of his own seasonings ~
on plates and chalices
brimming with rust, concealing
the carnal cravings weighing
heavier than the hypocrisy he preaches
to the oblivious ones,
hypnotized by immoral myths…
O thin-skinned spectators,
this is no fairytale for the weak.
This is the hellish gospel,
inked in the blood of pagans
rehearsing for the rising
of the satanic sun.
This is the story of a rose
that smells like warriors dressed in
vanilla from the springs of Valhalla ~
but fooled are the sympathizers,
wishing she’d found a prince charming,
and not a monster
masked as a victim,
weeping woes
like a wounded lion.
If only they knew he was
a grotesque shadow of Lucifer,
luring the fragile to find
their home
in the fangs of fiendish fragrances…
Beauty deceived the Beast ~
with sagas laced in hemlock,
and sighs that mirrored stars,
with well-deserved vengeance and storms
brewing beneath cloaked colors
of ill-omened oaths and ancestral angst.
She wore no tiara embellished with empathy;
she kissed his darkness,
to become
unbreakable damnation ~
a voodoo queen,
weaving blasphemy
into the eyes of the beast, struck
by trickery.
She left him drenched in spells
of sinister sparks,
no longer a beast ~
but a caged raven,
witnessing the fall of his empire
and the dawning of bones
and skeletons
mimicking the mind of his musing,
where she rules,
as the eternal imposter,
nurturing the sphere of all
with anything but kindness.
For she is the reflection
of his vicious visions;
she is the mother of venomous serpents,
the cloned wenches,
the voice of Lilith’s offspring,
forever painting a false narrative~
one that seems like
poisoned paradise.
Be wary of the banquet you feast upon ~
you'll taste the venom you once poured.
For Karma is boundless,
and beauty is blind ~
to the sins you preach
in mindless melodies...
Copyright © Ink Empress | Year Posted 2025
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