The castle’s skeletal structure looms on the horizon,
Once banished to oblivion
as it stood on a pillar of sand,
It’s blackened presence demands the attention of the entire land,
A void absorbing everything in it’s path.

Iron bars surround me,
Enclosing me mercilessly,
The cage being dragged painfully toward the dark structure
That crumbled eons past.

Clawing at the ashy ground,
Screaming with blood curdling terror,
Desperate to escape this sickening cycle of fate,

The sickening presence of the castle.
My iron enclosure refuses to be moved by my helplessness,
Retaining its grip on my physicality.
The embodiment of the callousness of the prison in the distance.
The void drawing me into darker times.

The landscape begins to dim,
The light rushing to escape the horrific scenes about to unfold,
The sky dejected,
Along with any hope of escape.

My muscles burn with fatigue as I contest the iron soldiers,
Old wounds widen from scars from darker times,
My body drops to the ground,
Unable to halt the racing fire that is my mind
A single thought occupies my thoughts on an endless loop.

not again