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XV

Zeus himself presides over the ferrying of these souls,

Zion awaits them, their final collective fate at hand,

 

Yet slowly it turns its back upon them,

Xenophanes mocks from his post,

Wailing, they fall

Velocity increasing infinitely,

Until they see no more the lustrous light

Trapped eternally in dark

Stabbed with betrayal and fear, their souls

Run amok, fleeing from the source of their anguish

Questioning existence.

Periodically in the abyss, the helpless aggregate conscious is

Overwhelmed with memory of Paradise

Now to them denied for eternity.

Mephisto remains, their only companion,

Leeching from them the final vestiges of hope now left within, once

Kept hidden to protect the warriors, now

Jabbed and pummeled to death.

In this state of perpetual umbra

Heaven so distant, now only faded, as if on parchment,

Gained by the souls is a sense of locality, once

Forgotten but now reattained, and

En masse, the group instantly

Derives that they have returned from beyond the mortal plane, the terra once again

Collates beneath their soles, and the collective decides they must return

Before the open sun, to bear themselves

Against the gods, against sanctity itself, and thus they cry:

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May 7, 2012
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