Fallen

Sire, I am the opponent * The tempter and perverter of man * This charge you have bestowed * Upon me since the first * And I have forever honoured thee * Creator, it is I who is enraged * May seven woes be made in heaven * For what I've undergone * Though flawless is my being * The seal of twelve-winged perfection * Forged like unto us, though lesser in excellence * Favoured, bidden to revere, but I shall not fall prostrate before thee * behold how you have fallen almighty son of the morning * See how you have been felled and cast down into the depths * I will ascend far beyond the heights of your glorious realm * My throne shall eclipse thine, just as my power shall surpass * "You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendour" * But I could never fathom * Wretched, deplorable me * The grandeur you have accorded * Upon these inferior beings * Yet this realm I command, no such bondage enslaves me * This hell I suffer is my ultimate paradise * Exalted I am perched * Now night's course has begun