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A hateful sun rakes the stillborn soil

Heliacal jaws rasping marrow from the bones

This is a land of ceaseless hunger

An incessant swarm of mouths spreading famine by sating it

A storm looms over the horizon

Full of thunder, but not of rain

Hooves and teeth in mindless rapacity

Cloven harbingers of the coming annihilation

Humectant evisceration, a holocaust to the new gods

Ash to dust, dust to stone

Stone to thorn and little else

Ungulate irruption, turning life into death

Fomenting desolation they christen as peace

This is the apocalypse, the end of our world

For they tell us a lamb broke open the seals

And famine, war and plague issued forth

Now see, their prophecies have come to pass

They have made a new heaven, one without stars

And a new earth, one with black rivers

Behold the barren womb in which we now lay

A circumscript monument to the second death