Awakening

[The Sleeper]

I'll tell you a tale, so terribly true;
Stated out as a rumor, but suddenly grew.
It deals with a man, and a heart, and a book;
An unborn child, its innocence took...

It happened one day in room full of dread,
A woman lay stricken, bleeding of red
Her captor pulling fate's strings like a thread
And her lover defeated, gone and now dead...

Unspeakable darkness intruded the land
The child was birthed by the captor's hand
He smiled, and thought, At last, I win
Before the first battle can even begin.