Bimeathest

Chapter TWENTY-Seven: Cursed by the light

I hereby reveal my plans for humanity. 

I take solace in the certainty that too few

will attend this forewarning to arm you against me 

or alter your collective course from onrushing doom.

To squander every advantage is your way. 

Were I not forbidden to exceed trickery, 

I would begin at this very moment to flay your soul

and burn you to shrieking ash.

I would extinguish your dim and flickering light

with a single breath, draw you down into eternal darkness

and with your own help, will yet do so.

Already, my triumphs halt you in your tracks,

arrest your progress, stunt your growth

and lead you far astray; even to the edge.

I poisoned your past to doom your future.

I authored a virulence, sold as salvation.

Let those who claim to believe, follow their scripture!

Every woman shall remain silent and obey her husband as God.

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