From the Depths

Praise be the unseen

Ponder not the ocean, so deep

What lies just below the surface

Will steal your sanity

Tainted, foul, unclean

Their lidless eyes, bulbous, unblinking

What lies just below the surface

Will leave you insane

Gaze upon the shoreline

The stench is sickening

Odorous of sea and rot

This place reeks of aquatic disease

When I arrived on this broken harbor

I hadn't foreseen the awaiting horrors

Their skin, a sickening slippery green

Almost amphibian

Some bipedal, others shamble four-legged

All armed with teeth fit to rip and tear flesh asunder

Desperately, I try to hide

I can't bear the sight any longer

Terrorize my feeble mind

Between fight or flight, I'll choose the latter

Frightfully flee for my life

What monstrosity would produced such a wretched spawn?

Their skin, a sickening slippery green

Almost amphibian

Some bipedal, others shamble four-legged

All armed with teeth fit to rip and tear flesh asunder

All at once

Restless eyes dart straight to mine

Paralyzed

Stricken deaf, frozen by fear

Collapsing to the cobblestone below

What will now become of me?

Praise be the unseen

Ponder not the ocean, so deep

What lies just below the surface

Will steal your sanity

Tainted, foul, unclean

Their lidless eyes, bulbous, unblinking

What lies just below the surface

Will leave you insane