The Unwritten Quest

 

One fateful night I follow a voice

Persuaded to leave the comfort I’ve known

A cry for help from the bowels of oblivion

Comes to me in a subliminal scene

 

My damsel bound to a distant prison

Her face shadowed by the Devil’s claw

 A prize beyond the gates of nightmare

Beauty estranged in a spectral swamp

 

My nemesis guards her in furtive pose

I tap its domain in seek of its face

Weapons minted apart now meet

Again invisible blades will cross

 

The enemy crouches behind its riddles

Waging the name of my captured love

It reaches out and mirrors my form

Beckoning me to join its world

 

It reels me in with a cobra’s charm

Seducing me into fantasy

 Tunneling deep into mental ruin,

I penetrate the empire beneath

 

Unearthly awe dilutes my fear

No longer a stranger to strangers’ lands

An eerie peace will subdue the hero

Who is brave enough to join the prisoner

 

A journey split into nightly chapters

Installing the parts of an unwritten quest

Through placid days I yearn to end

My hungry heart then guides me in sleep