#lvoecraft
I sought to pierce the astral screen
discover things which lay unseen
existence layers to strip and peel
all cosmic secrets to reveal
with book and spell I tore the veil
beheld all things beyond the pale
creatures that rule the land of Leng
ghoul’s midnight feast, the yellow king
fungi that steal and eat men’s minds
horrors made gods that sit enshrined
the gates of mortal souls open wide
to blasphemous things that crawl inside
I descry the future’s dark corridor
where the stars are an endless sepulcher
and now I know my folly’s curse
my reason slips, my thoughts perverse
I must escape and look away
lest in this charnel house I stay
but I cannot stop through act of will
my vision seeks, strains further still
the last recourse causes gorge to rise
I must be free from these hell born eyes
the knife clutched in my shaking hand
I gouge and stab my sight be ******
and for a moment I am free
but then I am brought to my knees
o’ gods of pain and fear abhorred
my sight but clearer than before
all vision now within my mind
I would bless who could make me blind
with eyes which cannot close or hide
forever gazing and open wide
nor even death will seal them shut
on these horrors my soul must glut
my body fades I cannot die
and eternally through madness fly
Oct 26, 2024
Oct 26, 2024 at 10:15 PM UTC