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Hagfish at my door

I hear the hagfish scraping at my door Leeches pour through cracks in walls. Here to grind my soul to dust, To turn my world to carrion.

Slime is dripping from the ceiling One small window next to me. I raise the blinds, I see abyss Water's crushed all that there is. Like whalefall on the benthic floor Worms make void of dead world's form.

Door buckles, sinews break, Cracks grow wider, splinters spray. The paint peels, veins pulsate, Leeches chant, calling my name. The hagfish burrows further in Drawn in by the smell of sins.

I hear the hagfish slither past my door Through my flesh and in my bones. There it nests and slowly bleeds, Viscera fusing as we breathe. Blessing is the pale worm's curse I'm the hagfish from womb of corpse.

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Darkest corners

It skulks in darkest corners

I haven't blinked in days.

I must turn on the lights

But the switches work nay.

The TV powers on

Panicked pixels on the screen.

The static barks at me

Don't look back, just flee.

From the ceiling it takes form

Its fall shatters the machine.

Its image, caustic in my skull

My spine alone commands my feet.

I trip and fall on soft floor

Warm bed, but I sleep no more.

From darkest corners, here for me

In darker corners I'll soon be.

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God of what remains

When the air is poor

And light, a faded dream

When the finest luxury

Is but one memory to keep

When dust covers all

And the last sound has ceased

You will hear me calling

As I've always been.

When the sun fades like a flame

Smothered by Fenrir

When time loses its meaning,

With seconds and centuries the same

When all bones crumble to ash

In dunes that fill the place of seas

You will find me

Where I've always been.

When the chains of flesh rust off

The mind is stranded at the veil

Among the husks of stars gone cold,

Hoarding scraps and ghosts of old.

As the ageless static grows

And engulfs their very souls

You will want me

Like you never did.

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Raktun, Moruuk, Elethn;

Breaker, keeper, and decision-maker.

Symbiotic gods conjoined,

In flesh and bone, tied by axon,

As without, so within

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Again the desert calls the flesh,

Howling through hollowed bones.

A lullaby of erosion

To put the spine to rest.

Dust pours out of broken veins

Piling up forevermore.

But one day, the flesh will wake

And the desert will make way.

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