Lord of the Red Land

... The forgotten god walks

invisible and weary;

walks for the last time

over the barren red land.

Deathwish of an immortal,

doomed god of a dead religion.

Bones scattered beneath the cold sand

have no memory...

Inhuman form eternal,

enemy god untamed,

creator of confusion:

adversary feared but envied

Once beyond good and evil,

amoral chaos force...

Fear and respect turn to hate:

defaced, demonized

Pale orphidian terror

red-eye brotherslayer;

left-hand moon devourer,

blood-claw womb-tearer

Defaced effigies...

demonized, then forgotten

Worshippers down one by one

by the blade of time.

At sunrise the last look

at the lost kingdom

usurped lord of the south

now ready to follow those who went before

Dying immortal departing

for the dreamless sleep

of the unworshipped gods

divinity's bitter end