Poem: Thalassic Demon: The Black Ghost Of Klapeida Written by: Alan Lisanti (2015)

Thalassic Demon: The Black Ghost Of Klapeida

Written by: Alan Lisanti (2015)

Website:  Misanthropic Poetry

From the depths of black waters

Like aquatic asphalt with

Pristine shine, reflections

Glisten off the surface

And the cloaked and faceless rise

With the steel cast lantern

In apparition's fist

Risen overhead

To lead the way back

To the living world

That has since

Ceased to exist

Carrion of death

Scavenger among the ruins

Cemetery submerged

Flooded lungs for the fallen

Water logged tombs

Serrated bones in human sewage

The great cataclysmic abyss

Claim them for your own

Devoured sea legs

And their life as whole

Upon these shores of never

Where the hopeful wait

You can see it fleeting

From their tired faces

Those who held out know

Those who won't return

Were swallowed by the unforgiving

Tides into the endless catacombs

In the stillness of nightfall

When the winds have frozen

The disruptive echo of steel

Shatters the paralyzed silence

The hands of iron bones

From a soulless body

Grip upon the wooded

Doorway like rungs of rusted ladder

They waken from false tranquility

Of uninvited slumber

And there the shapes move

In the shadows

Beneath the bronze mask

And blueness of the Moon

Face to face with the ghost

Of impending dread and doom

Follow me into forever

It will all be over soon

I'm looking for the others

Life just left behind

Swim in your despair

And give to me your mind