Nathrangking

Poem 20

Beyond the Stars

Blight rushes forth from a jagged maw suspended between the darkest depths of the realm to which all of the damned have been condemned. It obliterates all that stands before it leaving a hollow unthinking shell more dead than alive. Lush regions fall into a silence that takes root in living souls and fevers the mind with madness greater than even Bacchus at the height of his powers can ever accomplish. Haunting visions claw the sight from those who are the legions of broken and torn flesh. Apollo in his horror succumbs to the depths of living death in mere moments and knows not that the sun fades and goes out. Flora wither and crumble in the dust as the mothers of the earth shed an ocean of tears. Diana cradles her brother’s corpse without consolation as she too is swept away. Humanity falls into a damnation that has no mercy and has not even spared their deities from nightmares everlasting. One by one the stars begin to fall away and leave all primordials in the clutches of torments that they have no answer for. Weapons rust and are dulled when Mars learns what even Jove has learned. Minerva in her final moment spoke a name in prayer that none ever knew before. Something shifts in the cosmos even as the firmly entrenched anathema begins to feed and grow in its power. This destroyer rises up as a tower whose height surpasses even the highest reaches of the skies.

From above this creature that has assimilated the gods and far beyond its reach comes something more haunting and singularly mighty than it has ever known. First, a single note that breaks the curse of silence and reverberates endlessly. Then from this beginning springs so many more ripples that slap the monster aside. Every wave increases in intensity and complexity until the song is heard throughout all of history. An aria that flows from a tongue as quicksilver and throat of gold shakes those who are trapped in shadow. High above the sun and moon are reignited and upraised until their lights are spears that pin the living death to the realm that it so desired to rule over. Fauna stir and join the chorus. She who comes in a pillar of radiance is every bit as breathtaking as the blight was hideous. Eyes that remember the earth as hale and restore it as such gaze with love and compassion. Love sunders the tower that stole from Thanatos and casts the evil putrid wailing parasite into void where it can do nothing, but cannibalize itself. Warmth reenters the world and restores all that was lost. Citadels that radiate magical and alluring music bring her from above into a world unprepared for one so ethereal. Her name upon the lips of Minerva is an enchantment that makes wise all that hear it and banishes corruption to the aether from before the very beginning of creation. Star of Stars burns above her throne as her illumination heals and hums this sublime tune for all time.