Thursday, April 20, 2023

[The Tombworld of Ialtobaoth]



  1. The Birth of Death


Another story, never told

The Eden apple was replaced

By a human heart, throbbing

Amid the green leaves 

and the brown trunk

Of a third tree, the Tree of Pain

Its branches reaching up 

To the ever-sunshine of the stars


In this universe

Every change was death

To the Master of Time


  1. Indifference Engine


The tools of the master

Perform goodness for a voice

That emanates from a name

Punishing bundled difference

With death


  1. The Death of the Person


The servants of Ialtobaoth

Became swords and sieves

The brutality of a hammer on glass

Shattering themselves and their world

Into a map of borders

Their eyes ever looking forward

And never backward


The dead became seeds

Their souls became spirits of vengeance

Honed to a spearpoint

While the Great Demon rules

Over his world of death alone

Survival of the

The last thing to die

In this universe

Was a single name


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