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A labyrinth of trenches

Effluent collects at the bottom

My limbs sink deep

Muck consisting of flesh and excrement leaves rings around my knees

Towering walls engraved in hieroglyphs

And the remains of broken fingernails

Failed attempts to escape

Unholy historical record

A millennia of pain

How long have I wandered?

My brain finally stirs

I've forgotten to ponder

My punishment still lingers

And for how much longer?

An eternal march surrounded by human shaped husks

I feel nothing towards these echoes

The isolation weighs heavier still

The damage to my sanity has grown severe

God, Time, and men's good will

Each step becoming more obscure

Trudging for centuries

A fleeting image of disparate markings

Catch my eyes from a thousand-yard stare

My body contorts with excitement to take me there

A new path opens before me

Just as bleak

But different at the very least

Have I gone this way before?

Desperate for some kind of transmutation

I cross the threshold of the door

What new terrors have I found

Standing on rolling plains and hills

A new realm and the domain of undiscovered horrors

A fool I stood before it

Oh great monolith, terrible and strange

I crushed myself onto it

Several life times of pain

Cacophonous hymns sang their ungodly refrain

My skull split, my consciousness bursts

Until I bled, my bones splintered again and again

My existence ground in mortar and pestle