Posted by Geo (206.173.26.224) on September 09, 2000 at 11:55:27:
LO!
Smiters!
Evil Ones are they!
The authors of pain!
Unrighteous tormentors
From ages unknown
Their ways and means
Of oppressive plunder
Incomprehensible and shunned
By all who know
Perplexing those who know not
Their lascivious exploits
And thus remain unseen by mortal sight
They lie in wait
In glittering shadow
And false twilight
To ensnare and rend
Casting spells of ancient evil
The darkest sorceries
Bourne before the dawn of man.
No healing herb
Nor balm repels them
Not root nor bark
Nor ground stone
Prepared with mortar and pestle
Will fend against them
Demons are they!
Fearing no medicine
Unmoved by spells or prayers
Wandering to and fro as they please
Who keep the darkness close to man!
They who lurk beyond the veils of day
Stooping on the threshold of dusk
Thieves of slumber they come
Swooping down from gray realms
Wherein they concoct noxious tinctures
Of blood borne matter
With cunning and wicked genius
On wings of black fire they descend
Perching upon the head and face
Injecting horror
With poison claw
And acid fangs
Spitting brine into the eyes
Entwining the neck with tendrils
Spiked with burning hooks
Lowly and foul they crouch
Poised to strike as does the asp
Scraping at the sinews
Twisting the veins
And burning the blood
They ravage with impunity
Mocking grimaces upon their faces
As they feed upon the eyes
Melted to slime with corrosive spittle
Becoming drunk on the suffering screams
Their unstill hosts
Thrash and pace with gasping breath
The very air about them poisoned
By the sulfurous winds of their rotted bowels
They gnaw upon the cheeks
Vomiting stones into the membranes
Scraping the orbs with broken glass
Drilling unto the teeth
They scribe their evil litanies
Hailing misery and pain
Celebrating their afflictions
Upon the generations of man and woman
They cackle and whine
Sardonic songs
Of suffering and torment
Retiring mortals unto darkness
And gagging the mind with
Pleas of death
Which not even the Angel of Mortality
Will heed.