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Cast down like him

Ages ago down into soil

Six feet beneath

Like a doorway

To another world

Different to burning

Underground

There is only

Darkness and rot

Fusing with the mud

The strength of trees

Older than serpents

Older than giants

Skeletons in the deep

Bubbling tar and

Abominations

Blinder than mute

Parasitic feeding

Upon the rotten

The abject horror

Of breaking apart

Like withered fruit

Ripping under

Contorted by time