The Filly Who Cannot Breathe

Freedom tastes as sweet as nectar
Drunk right from within her flower
Yet my purpose is a specter
From whose haunting I won't cower

First the grand reveal in public
Of redemption so surprising
Praise this Princess curing those sick
Plagued by hatred for those ruling

"Sorry," I say 'til my throat bleeds
My contrition spake without jeer
What a foolish goal that rage breeds
Now in love my mind is most clear

"So forgiving are your subjects"
I opine one quiet eve'ning
"Charming too— so many rejects
That I have been busy making"

"Rejects?" asks my lovely lover
"What would they from you be Wanting?"
So naïve, I have discover'd
Such a pretty dove for tainting

"Why, to court and then be courted"
I reply as if it's obvious
"Am I not one who's been touted
As a catch to all our audience?"

Icy chill blasts through the chamber
Freezing all our tea in stasis
Fear and dread to be remember'd
Now let's drown in rage so gracious

"You are Mine in ev'ry Manner"
This and more my love announces
Breathless am I at her candor
And the passion she professes

"'Goddess' is an empty title
Ownership you must now earn from
Those that you would now belittle"
Standing ground, I face the maelstrom

With a spell I'm bound to silence
"Let the Heavens see them tremble
If they dare to lay a Hoof hence
On your Body, Soul or Temple"

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My Love is Pure, I know this well
My Loyalty infallible
And yet my Mind cannot but dwell
Upon that Fear intangible

My Lover lacks my Perfect Soul
And though I’ve tried to Purify
The Roots of Evil deep and foul
I know They run too deep to pry

At Night these thoughts do plague me so
And never shall I know of Peace
For though she’s Mine I yet still know
This Happiness could always cease

So what shall I be forced to do?
A Goddess cannot know Defeat
By Might and Right I'll take what's Due
To those opposed will Judgement mete

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Plant a seed and watch it flourish
Let the thorns choke out the daylight
In the darkness I will cherish
All the bloody flags in hindsight

Ev'ry word of doubt I utter
Brings her closer to our ruin
Ev'ry feather that I flutter
Building up the grand illusion

Paint a picture of a filly
Lost and found who still does flounder
One whose faith confounds the lily
Sanity now torn asunder

“There are others” I still whisper
Deep at night in veilèd wording
“On the ‘morrow will I linger
Or will I be then departing?”

Tossing, turning through the nighttime
Seeking solace, a solution
Then I drip the poison so fine
In that mind that seeks delusion

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A Good Mare always I have been
And yet I'm choking on this Bile
That she has spread beneath my Skin
To change me into Something vile

A Ball tomorrow to debut
My Love as one that others Lust
And so we'll dance Together through
The Night as all returns to Dust

For Others always will but seek
To take what's Mine, as Fate concurs
Unless we are to purge the Meek
'Til all that's left are I and Her

And when our Dance comes to a close
We'll look upon a World reborn
Where all the Thorns upon the Rose
Are pruned to Neveremore be mourn'd

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Failure was the only option
This I knew right from my rebirth
Now the fruits of all my caution
Ripen rotting wretched unearth'd

Dragged into the sky by magic
Flurry holds me 'gaint her body
As a storm that's most dramatic
Gathers 'round in air so foggy

"Be now Judged by I, your Goddess!"
Words that echo 'cross the kingdom
"For the Virtue taken from us
You shall drown in all my Wisdom"

Never has she been more beauteous
In this moment I am certain
Though my love be more than dubious
I shall bear so gay this burden

For no mortal could have ever
Triumphed over one immortal
But one alicorn could never
Best the four who proved so fatal

"Soon we'll see the end ecstatic”
This I promise as they enter
Sun and Moon and Heart and Magic
Judgement ready to be render’d

First they cry for peace and parley
As they try manipulation
“This is not who you are truly!
Violence can’t be your solution!”

“See how they deny your Godhood?”
Whisper I within the storm’s eye
“If you give into their falsehoods
I'll be trampled like a mayfly"

"My Devotion cannot falter"
Thus my lover seals our outcome
Nothing further would I alter
Let the Fates receive our welcome

"Be the good mare that you promis'd"
I demand as battle rages
"See now that my words were honest
They will slay me here, these mages"

One against these four unwav'ring
Such a spectacle so awesome
But a standstill we are fav'ring
For collateral is loathsome

Thus shall they be forced to bring out
That one weapon overwhelming
Once again shall Harmony rout
One who dared to be rebelling

As the rainbow drawing closer
Ready to us both imprison
I reveal my true form to her
Gloating as she doffs all reason

"Check and mate, my love divinèd
Now eternal is our union
For your soul I've much malignèd
With each instance of communion

"Once you thought I sought to flee from
Your imprisonment most cruel
But in truth when first you transform'd
Me from stone to flesh most rueful

"Love I felt but in my own way
Never would I bow before you
So as equals we'll stay always
After stone we are reform’d to"

Flesh to stone as pain and panic
Blend and fade to darkness deeper
As the choking grip of magic
Takes our final breaths so meagre

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A Good Mare always and forever
Remember me as one of Virtue
Whom Harmony condemn'd for Fervor
Whose Love at last defined my Purview

Darkness is but misery
Yet I now possess my balm
For I love my company
My belov'd with me embalm'd

I tried my Best, I swear I did

Now the games at last have ended

But Love my Goodness hast forbid

Gaze upon our statues splendid

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