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I saw you crawling through the tall grass

Bruised and beaten crawling slow

Held you close until your last breath

Last faint words I’ll never know

Tracking trail, beast on horseback

Swamps and hills, down through the briar

Hoof prints end upon a cliffs edge

Overlooking funeral pyres

Fall upon the shrine of seers

Heart of the malign

Life, a memory, fast fading

Death to the divine

Calling out into the darkness

Lurid cry that knows no beast

Chilling echoes fill the cold mist

Shapeshifting sorceress at feast

Blind is the mortal

Crooked path, serpentines

Ragged and stumbling

Blood scattered like fallen leaves

Crippled by madness

No legion to hear your pleas

Weakened and desperate

Sinking raft on endless seas