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Enfolded in bleak mist

Never to return

Ghost-like grey existence warps a sullen husk

Relinquished contentment

Joy unlearned

Splendor of a shimmering world doused in dusk

Stygian walls of grief encircle me

Echoes of the gnawing

Spurting, bloodied, fingerless being

Sunken pits glared in the foul gloom 'neath the charcoal plume beyond the black iron gate

Despite my fortunes of greatness; crippling self hate

Stillwater gleams within my restless forlorn eyes

Living in ever gloom

Pervasive corruption of self screaming silent cries

Longing death; doom

Stagnation of the soul

This dour, bleak life consumes

Withering fleshly tomb

Fading from this earth where memories haunt and darkness looms

Knife, Sting, Tooth

Ghastly gleaming wraith

Some wounds shall not wholly heal

Long have I bared this burden

Alone

Despondent, disconsolate, this

Pain is my own

Swathed in the reeking webs of the dismal beast

Shelob

Though I have returned from my wandering

I am lost

Putrid corpse bog water has forever stained my soul

Ageless malevolence corrupts and twists my mind to woe