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Abyssal Gigantism
15:03
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Plunge towards silver gate
Transparent ether cloaks
Cerulean portal mouth
Enswathed in amniotic cell
Ocean! Mother, mind, spirit
Serene pelagial womb
Limbs swell like stalactites
Over glacial ages grown immense
FORGET
Antique fascination, transfixed in shimmering thrall
Wordless cries from ageless depths beckon to us all
Annihilate the body, approach pure consciousness
From inky depths, tendrils unfurl, sentient caress
As within so without
Thence we came, and thence we shall return.
Oceanic embryo dormant within us all
Struggled, gasping into language
Unacknowledged, speaks from the abyss
Eldritch entities glowing, bejewelled
Light the depths of slumbering mind
Megafaunal ancestors
Relics of bygone epochs
Lingering in chambers
Lightless floors of silent seas
Bathynomus giganteus
Architeuthis dux
Macrocheira kaempferi
Anoplogaster cornuta
Twilight
Midnight
Abyssal
Hadal
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Reliquary
11:49
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Your only presence is in absence
The sun is missing from the sky
My only utterances silence
Truth a bath brimming with lies
My only hopes & dreams are nightmares
Bare feet meet soil in the night
My only gospel’s binding threadbare
Feet find the cellar and the flood’s head-height
Each shining memory
paves over the last
Buried and vaulted
consigned to the past
Dancing irreverent
on the graves of the old
Defacing their epitaph
before they've grown cold
A door in my mind
You wait behind
A room in my mind
And you’re dying inside
A room in my mind
You’re festering inside
Scratching at the mortar
Nails torn from skin
The relic at the altar
An adored phantom limb
Buried beneath the floor
An opaque recess
Rattling at the door
Yearning for access
So grandiose in her repose
So sacred now her bed
No funeral for stillborn words
Unfledged, unheard, unsaid
Exhume you from the reliquary
Prepare a coffin lined with lead
Now with these words I banish you
From that room inside my head
I held you close, so close that I
could see beneath your skin
But the savage march of time
Petrified your skin, and mine
Only salt for succour, embers grey within
Her tongue drips fire, My bones bloom ice
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