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a:

A vessel adrift in the heart of the sea

Like a spirit of old in the clerestory

Lowering down in a stark undertow

Past arched walls of blue carved by water in stone

In submerged dreams...

Astonished by a scattering fleet

A fulmination from the unreachable summit

Heaven denied, thus beckons the deep

Infinite howls resound

Across the effervescent range

Seek for profundity, and in time

You shall find unrelenting bane

The end of time - the end of space

Their origin in this marine desolation

b:

Further below

The horrendous underworld

Searchlights reach the floor

A brimless catafalque

...From cerulean vaults

Blue death wildly roars

c:

Alas!

A horrendous eye observes

A serpentine tongue samples

An infinite spine arches

An unearthly hoof tramples

In outbursts of charnel magma

Spat out amidst a million stones

Erupting through volcanoes

In a requiem of vaulted souls

The vessel flailed by pressure waves

That claw through the entire sea

Ascending to higher streams

To reave both shore and field

Their mundane recitations

Hopelessly resounding

As shadows brood over

There's no hope for salvation

Still less, to stop the aftermath

As some warped amalgamation

Lingering in the stream

Lost in a sapphire microcosm

Faltering in ecstatic mists

Oxygen seeping into the sea

Lifelines entwined with light

Kingdoms, mountains and times

Succumb to the dark