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The Man With The Golden Mask


He wears a mask of gold

He wears the clothes of a king

Yet no one knows his name

For he uses that of someone he saw on the grave

Light and glory is his cloak

But darkness and evil encompasses his soul

Every night, he sleeps petrified

Afraid of what may come to take away his forsaken life

Not a moment too soon, hellhounds dragged him from sleep

He screams, he pleads, he yields

His mask falls off, his glory dissipates, his scars revealed themselves

Souvenirs of his villainous actions

His soul flickers with the last of his life as he sees what might have been his life

If only his soul was as pure as of his mask and clothes

But all was too late, the hellhounds clawed his heart out, he bleeds

Nothing kills a man faster than his own deeds

No one can say all was well

As the limp, tortured man was dragged down to hell