Leviathan, The Girl PhemieC

What a vision of darkness
Creeps in with desperate sharpness
Lecherous grafting of knowledge
To my young mortal subconscious
Words writ by breath of the ancients
Wiser than even the pagans
Or the wizened old men with wands and white beards
That once were ensconced in my pages

Obfuscated by doom and laden with arduous tasks
Are the pathways laid out for the lot of us
Mages and witches and princes and maids
Pages with inches of space for mistakes

I am the beast, I am the light
I am the blighted being cursed with sight
I am the god who created a world
I am Leviathan, the girl

I can do it on my own, but you're a hero after all
And we may think our sacrifice is just
But pride comes right before the fall
The cascade of rain on my needles
A hand grasping tight to the bottle
Of a woman with untapped potential
The ennui of too late and too little