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Amongst the waves

Enclosed ‘neath the floor of an ocean bed

(a voice that speaks inside)

Of things that were never meant to be

Amongst the flies

Cloven is the foot of the one who speaks

(a darkness dwells inside)

He’ll guide us down the path of eternal night

He belongs to the depths and the bowels of the earth

He is the plague, the scum and the filth

And the wretched creation of man

Amongst the dead

Outreached are the hands that pray for life

(His longing to return)

Crawling from the depths

Amongst the sick

Drinking from the hands and the poison they hold

(In a constant state of sopor)

Bound to the ill

Peel back the earth

A shedding of skin

Uproot and expose

All that lies within

A pale voice calls from ‘neath the grounds

The whispers in throat are like him

Longing to be found

Their shadows dancing through the searing mist

With gestures to ensnare the mind

The human form decays, the skin gives way

Changing before my eyes

I drew closer to the mouth of fire

Within a chasm of souls reside

Appearing to writhe and contort

With every flicker of the flames

Peel back the earth

A shedding of skin

Uproot and expose

All that lies within

The whispers in the throat, like him, are yearning

Beneath my feet, all land engulfed inside

A maze of crimson fog

Severed from all human contact

And cast out below the ground

Soon they will see my long awaited return

To open their eyes to what the world has become

Grey wastelands of barren fields

And acrid skies will bury any hope

Of remaining here, living as we did before

Forgotten over time how I came to be

Gone are the days

Time will wash away

The waters will help me find my way back home

Gone are the days

Despite my efforts to climb

I fell the whole way down through the earth

Down through the earth

Pale skeletal hands of withering life

Grasp through soil

A realisation forms in blistered eyes

Time erodes us all