Syrtis Magna - Deviant Process

Crawling out of a sea of slime

Every muscle burning from this effort

It’s seemingly endless to regain the horizon

It’s seemingly endless to fill my lungs with air

Purity it seems wasn’t meant for me

As I swim painfully

I reminisce the feeling of breathing

And what a loved one looks like

Oh, what a fool I was

Believing there was something for me

Up in their midst

I found myself in Pandaemonium

How I thought ambrosia elevated myself

Liberated me from apathy

A fiery river in an ice-cold chalice

Every featur of mine stripped

Standing becam an herculean feat

Speech vile and indistinct

Cascading like a flood of mud

My body screamed for me to stop

The fire eating at my very life

The filth in me taking over

Spewing out, out of control

Sinking, reality blurring

I thought, I need more

More and more

Inching deeper in the muck

Exit the platitudes

The conspirators who brought my woes

Removing the cloaks to reveal

A myriad of doppelgangers

Laughing as I accept

Welcoming my deserved castigation