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Engorge Behemoth
07:56
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From darkness came dark-light, unlife materializing
From the void, a spark in the night, flowing forth
Arising. Attaining
Sentience, imbibing. advancing metamorphosis.
Links form like synapses firing, its maturation
Sorcerous. Proliferous
Burgeoning, growing ubiquitous
Held fast within its sphere, an immured colossus
Too immense to pass through the veil, it peers,
Learning its weakness
Compressing crenellations it swells, thinning membrane
Atomized scintilla escape its cell
Sent forth, unconstrained
From darkness came dark-light, unlife materializing
From the void, a spark in the night, flowing forth
Arising. Attaining
Sentience, imbibing. advancing metamorphosis.
Links form like synapses firing, its maturation
Sorcerous. Proliferous
Burgeoning, growing ubiquitous
Particles of a greater being, ingesting all in their path
Sensory input, conscience streaming
Engorge behemoth
Innumerable forms taken, out of time they exist
Parasitic beings devour, assimilation
Pneuma stripped
From darkness came dark-light, unlife materializing
From the void, a spark in the night, flowing forth
Arising. Attaining
Sentience, imbibing. advancing metamorphosis.
Links form like synapses firing, its maturation
Sorcerous. Proliferous
Burgeoning, growing ubiquitous
Sorcerous. Proliferous
Burgeoning, growing ubiquitous
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Venatic Rite
07:54
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Shadows dancing in the darkness Cast by hunters ‘round the fire
The woods silent and stark, Consumed by hunger, their need is dire
Faded prints of paw and hoof, Shed antlers tufts of hair
The scat dusty and dry, Untouched traps, empty snares
Wafting malodorous tendrils Fill hunters heads with decay
Mephitic sickness brings chills, The source, putrefying prey
Eviscerated elk lay lifeless, Moldering flesh, claw wounds
Disemboweled by a beast, Murdered, unconsumed
Venatic rite
Hunters entrusted to provide
Flesh of the lion living on the mountainside
Thirteen days deep in the forest, Fighting their way through thick underbrush
Ravenous, malnourished, Sudden screams, a thundering rush
Set upon by tooth and claw, The mountain screamer assails
Fevered eyes, foaming maw, Ghost cat crucified, hunters prevail
Venatic rite
Hunters entrusted to provide
Flesh of the lion living on the mountainside
Wrapping meat in caul and hide, Wrapping wounds from the lions bite
Homeward bound, full of pride, Delirium sets in, fevered, day and night
Heaving they retch bodies unsustained, Growing weaker, they’re wasting away
Plagued with weeping wounds, Slowing to rest they’re dead where they lay
Pyretic bite
Infection breeding while they return
Agitation seething from a febrile burn
Pyretic bite
Infection breeding while they return
Agitation seething from a febrile burn
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Pestiferous
06:54
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Eyes from the village drawn to the trees
Awaiting hunters return, who bring disease
Rising gibbous moon engorged with light
A lunation since commencing venatic rite
Host to the fever, pestiferous - Hunters moaning, oddly mellifluous
Hydrophobic, thirsty and miserable - Drawn out death they will know
Survivors descend stiff, sick and slow
Some reunited, more in throes
Dead gathered, bathed, laid to rest
The sick show signs of being possessed
Bodies bound to beds, strips of leather
Bite marks bleed and ooze, growing redder
Refusing water, eating only raw meat
Red foam rimmed mouths groan, growl and excrete
Host to the fever, pestiferous - Hunters moaning, oddly mellifluous
Hydrophobic, thirsty and miserable - Drawn out death they will know
Straining against bonds, snapping, gnashing
Writhing, final struggle before passing
Succumbing to festering wounds
Bodies interred only to then be exhumed
Necromancy whispered, the hermit hears
Of dark priests on distant frontiers
Ritual beyond time, across the sea
Vessel secured, at dawn's light they leave
Embark, voyage ambiguous - Sworn silence, crew exiguous
Surreptitiously corpses unearthed - Absconding for their rebirth
Host to the fever, pestiferous - Hunters moaning, oddly mellifluous
Hydrophobic, thirsty and miserable - Drawn out death they will know
Embark, voyage ambiguous - Sworn silence, crew exiguous
Surreptitiously corpses unearthed - Absconding for their rebirth
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Obsidian Eye
08:10
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Obsidian seas, the moon, her iron tides, Mariners, Chrononauts
On antediluvian shores they arrive, Mourning their loss, overwrought
Beneath wooden planks below the foredeck, Bodies wrapped in linen and hide
Secreted away, the dead slept, Laid head to toe, side by side
On jagged shores they alight, Their cargo in tow, sleds and rope
Through the day and into the night, They ascend the craggy scree slope
Sylphlike silhouettes stand in shadow, Silently, during moonrise
Light revealing priests disrobed, Gaunt and gangly, power belied
Who decides when to die
Who what where when and why
Who decides when to die
Under the gaze of the obsidian eye
Who decides when to die
Who decides when to die
Who what where when and why
Who decides when to die
Sexless tattooed priests, Black hands, black feet
Black nail beds, palms and soles, Paling ankles and wrists, tallow torsos
Waxen chests, darkening necks, Black heads and gums, tattooed tongues
Dark knowledge, nefarious intellect, For them life and death are but one
Corpses suspended, an obsidian pool, Bent across a wooden beam
Lowered as the pulley unspools, Head, feet and hands can’t be seen
Thrashing, seizing and splashing, Reanimation, resurrection has begun
Raised from the tarn, spitting and gasping, Purging black fluid from their lungs
Who decides when to die
Who what where when and why
Who decides when to die
Under the gaze of the obsidian eye
Who decides when to die
Who decides when to die
Who what where when and why
Who decides when to die
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Revenants
08:33
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Amnesiac revenants Atrophied weak flesh
Stumbling while supported On their rocky decent
The now living, once in graves, board the ship
Across white capped waves, through time they slip
Mariners failing, falling I’ll, the vessel’s adrift
In pelagic swill, hull pounded, sails are ripped
Abrupt calm brings silence, entering deep mist
In the soupy skies leviathans slither and twist
Passengers trapped in their biology
Controlled by an alien force
Slipping through its chronology
Shaken by the horror of its course
Revenants stand stoic, mariners leap into the sea
Seized, ophidiophobic, a sense of apogee
Obsidian seas swallow, simultaneously
Beings weak and sallow regain their potency
Passengers trapped in their biology
Controlled by an alien force
Slipping through its chronology
Shaken by the horror of its course
Who decides, Who decides when to rise
Spotted by the hermit from his cave in the cliffs
He sees the villagers taking notice of the ship
An unimagined reunion, dumbstruck, in awe
Revenants doom them, concealing their flaw
Passengers trapped in their biology
Controlled by an alien force
Slipping through its chronology
Shaken by the horror of its course
Who decides, Who decides when to rise
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Beset
07:51
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Sun hides in the overcast skies
Unease and dread, a cloud in their minds
Deep inside, a pit of despair
Husks have returned, they’re simply not there
Skin dyed, even the whites of their eyes
Washed, reminiscent of their demise
Scrubbing head, feet and hands
Living dead returned from distant lands
Who decides when to rise, who decides, when to die
Revenants lay, open eyed, all day
Humming softly, not a word will they say
Night falls, they rise with the moon
Villagers call, they wander into gloom
Forest dark, unknowingly led, a flock
Sacrificial lambs, following like human stock
In a pit thrust, bodies beaten and crushed
Bone shards float in the black fluid of their mush
Who decides when to rise, who decides, when to die
Opening dawn, half the village is gone
Stained slayers return, automatons
Hermit hides as they march by
Slips into the wood, won’t turn a blind eye
Moving slow, searching above as below
He sights an obsidian pool overflown
Cold sweat, seeing sylphlike silhouettes
Dusk has arrived on all sides he’s beset
Who decides when to rise, who decides, when to die
Who decides when to rise, who decides, when to die
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