10/08/2017

Dusk

Thus saith the unholy forces:
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The pestilence unrelentingly barrages and batters my consciousness, numbing the senses. As the background noise fades, I hear the vile beckoning for my return to a place that I never wish to traverse willingly. One of my oldest friends, perhaps family?

In my dreams, I see its imagined forms: the goathead, wielding a mighty staff, eyes excised, sightless yet unquestioningly domineering; the sacrificial pig, eviscerated, flayed, wounds purulent and ever-flowing, suspended for all to bear witness, an example of the great bestial powers; finally, the cruel spirit of the mists, mirthfully masochistic, inflicting its wounds to the vital areas in its many-tentacled form, patiently lashing in sequence so as to wage a ceaseless assault on all the souls within its unyielding grasp.

I sense the ominous approach of the unholy triumvirate as the daylight fades. The storm approaches and my sanity wavers. I know that these cursed fruits from those poisonous seeds sown many aeons ago will soon be reaped. The harvest will be bountiful.

Such is the eternal struggle. And yet, war is waged by two sides. And my soul, though resigned to the imminent conflict, will be valiant, will make its stand. I will not be vanquished, I will not be conquered. My resolve will prove victorious over these false gods, as it always has. I shall not falter.