Inexpensive lullaby
That left our sands dissatisfied
But blessed the hands that once designed
The animal that slithers slime
And now it sleeps beneath the bog
The creature feeding from the fog
Adorned in mud and graced in blood
The realm of the eternal slug
Oh ancient one
I long to smell your words once more
Sensations come
I recollect the shattered lore
To find the shadow of the gastrogod
Disguised in an ethereal mirage
The haze shifts colors
Yet still I wonder
Is it still alive?
I once came to you
As a dreaming boy
Now I come a red-eyed dreaming man
In this tome of hellish poems
Written by goblins, ghouls, and gnomes
A fable of a being known
To suspend life while knowledge grows
The mystic snail has not been shown
Created by the boggy pond
Asleep for eras, ages gone
Manifest now in my vision
Oh ancient one
Devourer of unclean souls
I lay alone
Glacially you approach my throne
Ground dressed in bones
Demons gnaw the remaining flesh
Numbers of stone
Gone mad from decades of unrest
OH
Now the air does separate
A mollusk perforates
The swirling grounded haze
My majesty awaits
A droning humming hymn
My longing heart gives in
My withered mouth a grin
A joyous peace within
The snail approaches
A pace so slow, it
Vibrates to cloak me in its grace
I sink into a shell
In peaceful slumber
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