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Where am I? Bereft of sight,

Crawling fiercely…

Lo! Twin paths unwind ‘neath subterranean skies

Where sanguine glows a loathsome sunlight,

Vibrant, alive,

That soon will fade to ashen gray

And I see…

Darkness, pregnant with death,

Stretching its hand to seize

my soul and guide…

This tragedy

Begins a bloody act; flanked by the shades

Of those who lost faith and thus became

The forlorn ones that Fate has marked

To pass through gates and horrors…

Darkness, benights their eyes

To embrace madness and to come,

Reborn as heroes, back to the world:

Heroes! The Gods Below ask

A high price for their dark gifts:

Madness,

Swarms me like flies

Shall twist thy soul

Shall set me free…