Cold

_{Cold - Vorylin}

_{I am louder than a bitter roar.}

_{The lower I am, the higher I soar.}

_{My palace is near the ground, near the floor.}

_{You may not see it now, but you feel what I have in store.}

_{To my rival, it seems I am the one overthrown}

_{And yet I am the one who against he is outshone}

_{My seeds of influence easily sown}

_{Hidden affluence, harnessed by the unknown.}

_{Having known that I've committed to this fight}

_{To resolve itself in a bitter respite.}

_{We are in a stalemate. This is my plight.}

_{Here I am tangled in such a wicked slight.}

_{I am the purest rebuttal, the mighty retort}

_{To that of my opponent whose work I twist and contort}

_{To the point where its existence may be abort}

_{And I singly am the one left to exhort.}

_{The rest sit and contemplate my might and power}

_{So they may not regret the time, the place, or hour}

_{Of their reckoning during a moonless night and a frigid shower.}

_{I am one who induces slumber and sustains life that it may again bloom and flower.}

_{I am your guard preserving the rear}

_{So anything beyond me is nothing to fear.}

_{Crisp, clean atmospheres ever so clear}

_{As a flake of mine can wear as if I had shed a tear.}

_{For myself, there is no greater consequence to be}

_{Than that of being what even I cannot see.}

_{It is this possibility of chance that in what I do I am free}

_{To stave my rival's reckoning spree.}

_{Hardening that of even the softest fleece}

_{And disturbing yet administering my own peace;}

_{Upon those who know I am the one who creeps}

_{Into the body, the bones, it seeps.}

_{As it slips in further, the body succumbs further to a daze,}

_{But, thankfully, it is nothing but a transition. A phase}

_{on the forbidden path of violence we raze;}

_{A lasting image that bonds hither and stays.}

_{Aggravatingly, captivatingly, methodically, meticulously, logically,}

_{Ingeniously, surgically, precisely, accurately, troublingly,}

_{Devastatingly, apocalyptically, strategically, charismatically,}

_{Impressive I am, however I am lonely.}

_{It matters not whether I or the populace will pay}

_{The price of entering the fray}

_{Between me and that of my rival, I say}

_{That time in night and confidence in day.}

_{I am one of modest yet deep ambition}

_{And I deny lofty footholds of superstition}

_{That it may not uproot my credibility and position}

_{As I can hold my own against my opposition.}

_{Light beckons to me in the greatest clarity,}

_{Yet Darkness comes to me in the least rarity}

_{So we join forth efforts in our charity.}

_{Despite this, I hold forth reprieve in chastity.}

_{Slowness is my domain, in my space}

_{The drained is what I bear on that of man’s face}

_{I am fast against the race}

_{To slow that of my rival and indeed I give chase.}

_{Let he who admires me drink of my harmony chalice}

_{And let he not succumb to my malice}

_{As he is not a victim of vindictive avarice}

_{In which neither to me, God, or man does he become callous.}

_{I am a noteworthy power that should be used in extract}

_{So that other nobles may join with us in contract}

_{Out of sheer greatness in mere contact}

_{With that of I, this is a stable fact.}

_{In the eyes of a beholder, more than one can shake a fist,}

_{Healing and freezing away ailments and a cyst}

_{Restoring the essence of life and all that it could consist.}

_{Reconsider me of worth, please. To this I greatly insist.}

_{Strangely enough, I am associated with death and the sick.}

_{This is not my choice, nor is it my most delightful pick;}

_{Such a designation is one that I would love not with it to stick}

_{As to portray me as anything different is a malevolent trick.}

_{To many, I am an outcast, an ingrate!}

_{A better purpose is to freeze than conflagrate}

_{And subjugate to cooperate}

_{Against the status quo’s conglomerate.}

_{Now it is up to humanity to decide}

_{On which of us to confide}

_{In for unique protection I or the wretched Heat can provide.}

_{Once chosen, I give great strength should you choose to co-inside.}

_{I am a greater force than any that is sold,}

_{For I alone am only so bold}

_{And carry an effect that is ever so old.}

_{I am a grand force that will never fold}

_{Nor do what of me is told}

_{I am what you call the Cold.}