Pendragon
06-10-2009, 08:30 AM
ABADDON
The lightning crackled overhead
like the sound of a taskmaster’s whip.
The blinding rain robbed me of my vision,
and as I stumbled sightless between two massive granite pillars,
a searing thunderbolt broke with unbridled fury the stone column on my left,
toppling it across the rocky pathway, cutting off my retreat.
While the storm raged and wailed like a tormented soul far above my head,
I staggered on, ever downward,
into a valley of smoking fire pits
wreathed in a dank, heavy mist.
The spirits of departed dreams filed past,
dragging with them the clanking chains of despair.
Behind them a moaning horde of lifeless hopes
came still wrapped in their death-shrouds of despond.
My blood froze within me as I stared at the vision.
I could not rip my eyes away.
A horrible laugh split the mist, and a demonic form approached.
“Welcome!” it laughed, “To total oblivion!”
And as the vapors divided and the fiery pits blazed,
I saw to my everlasting horror—myself!
Pendragon
The lightning crackled overhead
like the sound of a taskmaster’s whip.
The blinding rain robbed me of my vision,
and as I stumbled sightless between two massive granite pillars,
a searing thunderbolt broke with unbridled fury the stone column on my left,
toppling it across the rocky pathway, cutting off my retreat.
While the storm raged and wailed like a tormented soul far above my head,
I staggered on, ever downward,
into a valley of smoking fire pits
wreathed in a dank, heavy mist.
The spirits of departed dreams filed past,
dragging with them the clanking chains of despair.
Behind them a moaning horde of lifeless hopes
came still wrapped in their death-shrouds of despond.
My blood froze within me as I stared at the vision.
I could not rip my eyes away.
A horrible laugh split the mist, and a demonic form approached.
“Welcome!” it laughed, “To total oblivion!”
And as the vapors divided and the fiery pits blazed,
I saw to my everlasting horror—myself!
Pendragon