Hear us.
We are nameless.
Yet known beyond the furthest reaches of the deepest sea.
We are formless.
Yet our expanse stretches across mountains like an endless legion.
Our influence strangles like the constriction of a Boa. snake.
It begins small. smaller than a chill.
smaller-than-the-whisper-of-a-mouse.
Subtlety comes with the chills. The body’s response to fear – or euphoria. One does not enter by taking step-stairs. It is a steep decline. fast.
Realization flutters your awareness when you have already rolled down the hill. Realization flutters like wings.
O’ hold on to the bloodied stone in your hands. A brother's burgundy brains paints the soft sand. Newborn babies taken from their mother’s grasp. O’ the diamonds. It is fornicated on from other lands. The wandering eyes of a man and his other head. Cries of despair and filled with dread. Now look. see.
Look over what we are.
We are the shift between the sands of time. The darkness between the grains. Don’t you feel them between your teeth? The way they drag along your tongue? The black consummation reeks of your own self - seeking solutions. Keep going. run. walk. crawl. Worm—
Let your vision be shaved with a fine razor as you speak senselessly about what you need. The silent voice in your mind that makes you double check the black corners, inky shadows – only to find the comfort within them. A hug that falls into more descent. It is okay. Say it with us – it is okay. Do not brood. watch, eyes. feel, skin. I light the pipe full of life with a burning cigar rolled with the stamp of death. Into the nebula of the solar system does your ashy essence linger now. To the void between the stars. Further off and into the inbetween.
Now.
speak it - say it - murmur the curse - our name.
RUIN.
(This is my submission for
’s rituals. A darkness that had been clawing at me for some time. Thank you for reading.)
So, today was a rough day for me chronic illness wise but I am very certain that I’m not speechless because of that.
Your writing gets better and better, literally I blink, and three pieces later I’m staring blankly at a wall in absolute awe.
Came here to take notes for Sunday so it doesn’t take me another 10 hours but I will have to come back because your writing completely knocked me into a wall (positively)💛 what an awesome piece
The vivid descriptions, the unique structure, and the dread that seeps into you as you read… incredible writing