Kazikly Voyvoda

In a land beyond the forests
A fearless man with no remorse
Risen to power by the boyars
As warlord to the Wallachian Hordes
Bore the Name of Dracul
As the Devil's son he was known
With an iron resolution
Against the Infidels stood alone.

With the banner of the Dragon
Faced the Sultans of the East
No mercy ever flourished
From this foul and sinful beast
On the hilltops by the castle
His captives bound to die
Sharpened poles thrust in their innards
Facing upwards to the sky.

Nails in heads were driven, Impalement on the stake
Regardless of religion, all shared the same fate
Dracul's hand of Justice, swept throughout his lands
Terror from the Tyrant, none escaped the Voivode's hands.

A feast of putrid corpses lay rotten in the sun
From nobles down to peasants, all punished for what they've done
Vlad arranged a banquet before the impaled and befouled
And dined before the dying, as in pain they screamed and howled.

At the banks of the Arges River, the waters stained in red
Upon reaching Dracul's realm, his foes in dread they fled
For the sight they saw was sickening - Bodies hung on the city walls
Headless and dismembered, as trophies of his wars.

A Last campaign was crafted
To bring down the Dragon's reign
To cross the vast Carpathians
And the Impaler's land reclaim
So, upon the field of battle
As he looked down in a pool of blood
His heart was pierced in vengeance
Thus came to end Prince Vlad.

Yet this deed remains uncertain
Some say he conquered Death…
And a pact was made with Satan
And thus prolonged his final breath.

A gathering was thus dispatched
To exhume the Impaler's vault
Alas the tomb was empty
And the reign of terror spread once more
All feared Draculya's vengeance
From beyond the mortal gates
As peasants were corrupted
To a realm beyond the grave.

Unnumbered deaths wrapped in mystery
In this plague-infested land
From monastrieries in the mountains
To the Turkish kingdom of the sands.

Thus lives on the Voivode's legend
Of the immortal Kazikly Bey
That the Dark Prince of Wallachia
Haunts his fortress to this day.