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Oculum

It watches me, a single eye

Exaggerated to near ridiculous size

But its attitude is quite serious

A hunger there, that knows no bounds

 Behind it a consciousness delirious

An ill will emanates for miles around

 

Its guts churn but it has no mouth

Tendrils branch fractally out

 From dendrites linked and pathways kinked

To squirm into the minds of men

 

They sit on the edges of perception

A vague unease cast over the soul

Which then, recognized, grows deeper

Madness is born, a ghastly conception

 

The men of the desert tell tales of him

They call him Lie, Ahriman.

I know him well, and I know that when I die

I shall once again see the Evil Eye.

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Written by
kaj-parker-benson
American
Published
May 9, 2013
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