She said I don't keep a journal because I'm afraid of what I might read but this changes everything. Now I am a songbird and I will sing.
She said I am the dead sea but her eyes screamed I am alive Inside.
Open up and let me breathe or leave me be and let the river take me.
Her faith in great men has been shaken by winds of plagues spit through false words.
In the wreckage of this world she burns.
She said this begins and ends with vengeance and i replied if it can die than I can kill it. You are not like the others in our village. Every characteristic you bear matches the descriptions written in ancient scriptures. Your face carved into lost monuments. The one from my premonition. The multiverse works in perfect unison. There are no accidents. It was written.
I'll hold on to your last breath as it hangs aloft from the tallest cliffs of Mount Olympus. I saw our future in this chest. There's nothing in it. Where are the vials of gold dust we've been promised. To what heaven are we now destined. Avert her eyes and evade all question.
Like the sphinx who speaks in riddles I decipher every line you say. It's your eyes that give you away. She said who among you will step from this crowd and stand your ground.
Stand your ground or be buried in it.
Wade through the deep and I promise you'll find what you've lost hidden underneath the endless sky above. With arms outstretched she reads from the dead sea scrolls.
The ground shakes from our feet as the last impact arrives. If this is defeat then I fall a god. Let the river take me to the city of gold.
Watch her talk to the wind like a captain's parrot on a ghost ship. She asks who is this phantom? That mans a fortress and I am him. The very embodiment of expansionism. You were nothing but another scalp around her belt. Your name became a notch on her ivory handle.
Her vacant stare says you shouldn't have come here. In the end her only vessel descends into the abyss. As the hollows consumed her she said I am ruined and truer words were never spoken. Buried at sea her tomb stone reads I don't know If there is a god or a heaven but one things for sure I'm going to hell.
She said you've traveled far for one with no wings. Now lay with me and rest for eternity. May our lives be a symphony of harmonies. Open your chest and let our heart sing. The earth falls out of sight and sound beneath our feet. Now all that's left is the skies. Moonbeams collide with sunlight and rivulets of brand new colors shine through our wide eyes. I extend my hand in hopes that someday you will join us.
She screamed the pyramid has spoken. I am the dead sea. Let the river take me back to my golden city where my thrown is waiting along side all those faces buried in there bed of roses. Emptiness knows no hollows like my minds eye. Where I go you can no longer follow. Bear witness. This is transcendence. Now I am become death. The destroyer of worlds.
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