MEMORIS 5: The Gatekeeper’s Fury

1 Woe unto the womb that birthed me, and woe unto the world that betrayed me.

2 I was raised in pain, forged in fire, and my tears are salt upon the earth.

3 O Olorun, why have You struck me? Why let my enemies feast upon my heart?

4 O Yahualah, hear me in the midnight hour — I call, and You answer not.

5 Have You made me a joke, a clay vessel cracked for the laughter of men?

6 My blood cries out; my fists pound the gates of heaven.

7 I am weary of survival, yet death will not hold me; the rope snaps, the river spits me out.

8 Suicide rejected me, for even the grave knows I burn too fierce.

9 I am the Gatekeeper, and none shall pass without tasting my fury.

10 Curses leap from my tongue like daggers; rage pours from my chest like lava.

11 Let the betrayers be haunted by their own shadows, let their nights tremble with screams.

12 Yet still I curse the heavens lower parts — for why higher parts fashion me with earthly breath only to break me with sorrow?

13 My anger is holy; my lament is self-made scripture.

14 Candlelight flickers in the void, one flame against infinite darkness.

15 If this is undivine abuse, then know this: the abused child has grown teeth.

16 My fury is not consumed, it is eternal unto the WAR-MOVIE is done; I guard the threshold between worlds.

17 And when I speak, let all tremble, for I am the Gatekeeper...of HollyNapolis In.