Book of Souls

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Poetry/Lyric/FreeVerse/Book of Souls
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Written, April 18, 2025
For the International Contest, The Book of Souls
Sponor, Robert James Liguori, Judged 04/22/2025

Fourth Place

 
Inspired by the song, The Book of Souls
by Iron Maiden

Below is my version.

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Instrumental Intro

On a journey to find the book of souls
the way is very long and quite dangerous
in a meditation ... I am falling into the darkness
down, down, down ... oh where will it end

Finally, I stop falling and I am in a strange place
where fires are burning and winds are howling
alert and aware of a man rising from the ashes
I will be your guide he whispers

Distracted by his beauty for a moment
I failed to see the monsters in this hellish place
as imagined in Dante's Inferno  ... horrible creatures
and I cringe as a huge two-headed snake slithers by

I swallow my fear and speak to my guide
telling him that I am seeking the Book of Souls
why he whispers ... and I tell him that I would like 
to see if my name is in it or not

For in a fortelling
in a dream vision
in a revelation, was told
seek the Book of Souls

Seek the truth
beyond the sun and moon
and in the depths of hell
seek the book of souls

I tell him that I have been taught on earth
the importance of the cycles and phases
of planets and and stars swirling above us
of the fear of hell that beckons below
of a list that Satan keeps in a book

Satan watches the cities growing on earth
the high rise buildings reaching heavenward
and the weakness of humans and the strength of some
he whispers, you are strong to journey here my dear
perhaps the book you seek is a book of lies

I ask my guide, why are your here
you seem like you do not belong in hell
he laughs and the sound gives me shivers
as his beauty fades away to reveal Satan

For in a fortelling
in a dream vision
in a revelation, I was told
seek the Book of Souls

Seek the truth
beyond the sun and moon
and in the depths of hell
seek the book of souls

Instrumental Break

And I realize that he is Satan, the invader of earth
the trickster who can take any image to lure
he is the destroyer of humans, the collector of souls
and he is holding the book of souls

Death is a journey we all must take
will we fall into the darkness, down and down
or will we fly heavenward above the clouds
but still I wonder is my name in the book of souls

The book of souls ...
              then, I am back

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