I have been shown so many things that I have completely failed to see -

 

I wasted time chasing shadows but now the darkness has been lifted. I see clearly what I have and what I have not failed to do, and I do not intend to fail us any further -

 

 

ONE

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I see now that we will take the Holy City. 2 I see Judah fallen to us, Gilead fallen to us. 3 I see us take Manasseh and Galilee and swarm up to the heights of Lebanon. 

 

4 I see their Great Cities levelled and brought down, as we surge in one irresistible flood that will cover the face of the Earth. 5 The end of their murderous Empire and anyone foolish enough to defend it. 6 And this will just be the Beginning.

 

7 This is the great juncture of history. Of every promise I have seen this is the clearest one. 8 Everything depends upon this single point in time that has now come very close. 9 And I see where the rupture occurs and I intend to be there to meet it.

 

TWO 

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I gathered the People for the last three years. 2 I did my best to hide them and sustain them but they have been harried and dispersed. 3 Even our few remnants who must now travel only by night.

 

4 I had no vision of the future apart from guesses and vain hope. 5 I saw the People wielding such power, multiplying the strength that I am given to wield.

 

6 In the darkness small blades are as fearsome as their greatest engines of war. 7 A child more lethal than the strongest champion they have. 8 And there is wolfsbane and hemlock and every other herb that slips so easily into wine. 

 

9 But these are also just disoriented children, frightened and demoralised with their numbers so diminished.

 

 

THREE

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I was late to see the truth and so I erred. 2 There were Others quicker to the truth and they beat me at every turn. 3 I was slow to act on what I did see and that was another mistake.

 

4 But the Sisters must take some blame. 5 I will make them apologise for every time they told me what I could and could not do. 6 And they will pay for every child that has been lost as a result. 7 Their ignorance and arrogance have endangered the whole world and they will bow to me once the work is finished.

 

8 They demand that I hunt the Unclean the way they do. One by one, under the light of the full moon. 9 But this is slow, too slow, it is absolutely clear to me now. 10 And it was this hesitancy that got my mother killed.

 

 

FOUR

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I have seen future histories in which we do not prevail. 
2 Where the enemy stretch their talons out to crush the whole world forever. 3 But I also see that Love might finally prevail, as he teaches us so often, 4 that it might explode outwards from this point in history and never be conquered again.

 

5 It would have been better for me to nurture the Two and not seek followers at all. 6 We could have felt our way towards the truth of our union in whichever way that lay. 7 We would not need stores of secret knowledge to see what we must do.

 

8 But then I see the People weeping and embracing and rushing out to spread the Good News, 9 and I see that I may not have gathered these poor escaped children in vain.

 

 

FIVE

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When he speaks of Love I burn. 2 When those truths become more beautiful at the touch of his expert tongue. 3 And I soften when I return from hunting and pass by the place where he sleeps.

 

4 The fire he puts within me wants to join with the light within him. 5 The Sisters shame me for that desire but I know that love can overcome even the greatest shame, 6 that Love is always made out of such joinings together.

 

7 I know they both love me for how could they not? 8 I have nourished them and met their needs but what of my need? 

9 I am told to remain as wolf-mother but I am also a woman of flesh and blood. 10 I am not some dim wraith stricken with grief for men who died long ago.

 

 

SIX

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The Sisters call me jealous because they do not understand.  2 It is not a matter of another girl taking him because that would never be allowed. 3 It is a matter of prophecy: that this world will not be saved without our joining together, 4 that we must join if we are to create a New Heaven and a New Earth.

 

 

SEVEN

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I know the Sisters call me names. 2 I see them written out secretly before me and many of them are true. 3 I am an Orphan, 4 I remain Unconsoled.

 

5 But they do not know why they call me: 6 the Red-Handed,

7 the Rebel, 8 the Desolator of the World.

 

9 I am come to lay waste to the Earth, there is no sense in denying it. 10 But only so that a better world can be born.
11 They do not see: that the destruction that brings an Angel from Heaven is better than mercy.