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What the Emperor Spoke

from Among the Cypress by Among The Cypress

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"O wanderer, thou art lost.
This was once a spot of reverence and worship, now only the alma mater and I remain."

The air is thick with spores of fungus, the trees are low and heavy with the dark fruits of elder and the sap of tar.
Groping branches pierce the skin below and above the canopy is as visionless as the night sky.
Their trunks form knotted columns.

I have come to this place to seek its most ancient guardian, to crawl beneath it as it whispers of a time long past.

"O wanderer, thou art lost.
This was once a spot of reverence and worship, now only I remain.
I am emperor, of a dead kingdom and dying queen.
Living from curse to curse,
Suffering, loss after loss.

Seek not this place.
Through my eyes we will go there.
Stricken with grief and rage, I will cradle you in my teeth.
Until my mouth is bursting at the seams, I will cradle you in my teeth."

A polished hide of volcanic glass, it tread softer than the snakes that scattered in its ghostly path.
An eyeless apparition, it drew close and sang low.

I have come to this place to seek its most ancient guardian, to crawl beneath it as it whispers of a time long past.

The thicket takes me.
The beast fades to black.
I can hear the oceans shifting from the heart of the forest.
I can feel the night sky as it fades to a royal purple.
A golden sun crawls along the horizon with the perpetual dimness and grandeur of a dream.

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from Among the Cypress, released April 22, 2015

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