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Beneath the sky of tattered gray,
Where ravens bathe in cold decay,
A manor sleeps on cursed moor,
Its walls still weep, its halls implore.
No sun dares cross that ancient land,
No flowers bloom from withered sand,
Yet still it stands, a mausoleum,
Of love turned rot, and dream to scream.
They say a woman lives within,
With alabaster, bloodless skin.
Her eyes are ink, her breath is ice,
Her words as sweet as sacrifice.
She waits beside a fireless hearth,
In bridal gown from nether birth.
A crown of thorns upon her brow—
A ghost in love, but not somehow.
Once, long ago, a traveler came,
With haunted past and untold name.
He’d lost his faith, his kin, his spark,
And wandered blindly toward the dark.
The wind did whisper in his ear,
And said, "Your fate, young fool, is near."
Yet on he walked, compelled by something,
A pull that hummed, a lover’s humming.