Plague Ritual from Pestilential Hymns by Thaumaturgy

I stumble through this throng of broken remnants of my memories
Breathing, shambling shells of people pressing in
My sight affronted, mind afflicted
What empathy remains is fraying at the ends

I mutter a curse
In the stagnating air
A prayer for the rending of flesh laid bare

Deeper still than the blood is a bottomless well
A cavernous cistern of hatred that roils and seeths
The surface churns and coagulates into sigils
A solemn vigil for disease

There, a gathering storm on the horizon
Scorn incarnate in miasma
Splitting open the corpuscular simulacrum
Putting to rest this mockery, this delusion

Archaic advance
Of endemic disease
Humanity now kneels and bleeds

Oceans become a roiling cauldron of contagion
Birthing a monstrosity that towers over life itself
Sweeping away the shallow fabric of society
I brought this on my people, brought this upon myself

The spirit of confrontation
The spirit of enmity
The spirit of all that opposes what wills and believes
Transforms the atmosphere
To a stinking, choking cloak
A funeral shroud for the weak
A ritual of plague and disease

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