The Last Unburnt Reliquary

from Endless Landscapes of Grim Carnage by Huntress of Stars

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In my endless quest for shelter, I came upon a cavern.
Its entrance, a vicious maw, swallowing sand and stone.

Yet the promise of respite
from the endless sea of blistering heat,
the scorching haze, birthed by our ancestors,
bid me to seek inside the tunnel’s Cimmerian shade,
disquietude put to rest by my calcinated flesh.

(For they were mindless of the venom they scattered like ash,
cursing their children to inbreathe by their sins,
though their wanton profligacy, by their vain transgressions.)

Once inside, a chill wind drew me further down, descending into the blackened depths.
The sound of my footsteps reverberated as if their echo resounded across time.
As a blackness, heavy as the night sky, enclosed me into its glacial embrace.

What arcane chasm had I foolishly entered,
tempted by my desire for reprieve from the punishing glare of the crimson sun?
What cryptic shadow now embraced me?
Was the solace I found within a false promise, merely a chimera?
Or had I found the last unburnt reliquary?

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from Endless Landscapes of Grim Carnage, track released August 12, 2021

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