Three Strikes and You Wake Up in Hell

 

Three Strikes and You Wake Up in Hell

He hissed whereas passing near me, “…Sorry Mate, but that’s strike three…”

How unusual, I turned to look and that was the very last thing I bear in mind

Random, dark and sinister, but in addition a intelligent gentleman in his personal means

His tiny lapel pin learn, Three Strikes and you Wake Up in Hell

But how, how is that this attainable, what have been my strikes?

Who, Why, How and when and is that this actually taking place to me?

My head gaining readability with every passing second, that’s

Until the primary sharpened claws of the indignant west winds ripped by the forest

An icy shudder ran by my complete physique and again once more

Whipping, slashing, tearing, gnarled gusts punching by the timber

Again and once more she pounded a vicious echo of monstrous ferocity

With a lot ache, the traditional branches maintain quick in opposition to the torment

While the youth shortly ceded, being splintered unmercifully into tiny daggers

Then the swirling started, matted detritus rose excessive above the panorama

While a grimy infested wind stirred warmth into this nice rising cauldron of fury

And then all of sudden…silence…the forest as soon as once more is conditional and nonetheless

Then the whispers got here; at first however just a few. I strained to listen to their message

And one other and one other, quicker and quicker, a harmful rising cadence

Voices, coming from each path, each voice getting louder and louder

Assaulting your consciousness with screams, orders, chaos, and distress

Echoes of lengthy slain archers shouting free as pointed shafts take flight

As they strike the bottom, the awakening commences; sounds grow to be actions

While overhead a jagged flash of lightning races throughout the evening sky

Another storm is brewing; nonetheless far in the space however it might be seen quickly sufficient

Without warning, the primary all-encompassing bellow erupted from above

Bellowing and then a deep soul-crushing rumbling of a black thunder

Chaos begins in a deafening roar which shortly contracts

And abruptly an amazing steaming pit opened in the land

The air shifted, it quickened with a stale warmth, pulling onerous into the abyss

Tortured souls, particles, filth and human struggling, effortlessly slip away

A paralyzing screech and in turned above introduced my first ache

Deep, piercing ache radiating right into a profound aching of my joints

Breath got here with an amazing battle as this borderline give up ache coursed

My cranium throbbed and my jaw clenching because it culminated in my temples

And then an amazing and mighty noise, a voice, a shouting to all

The gates of the Hell have simply slammed closed

Remember, Three Strikes and you Wake Up in Hell

My pulse quickened, head pounding, recollections racing, making an attempt to place all of it collectively

Suddenly the understanding took maintain; This is de facto taking place

It’s not a nightmare, it’s the top of the road and it’s solely simply begun

Evil from throughout time and world are gathered right here

Damned souls of the traditional armies of pestilence, torture, and ache

Slavers, mercenaries, sluts, whores, killers, sadists, and thieves

And then the panic set in, the noise, the wind, the darkness rising

Spinning directionless as the primary icy drops of acid rain pelt the panorama

Each slipping from a humid conductive present excessive overhead

Ready to say an etching on flesh or the bottom

Barren timber supply no cowl, whereas flesh sizzles however doesn’t bleed

From the north a caustic fog slithers in like a lethal beast

Dripping tendrils search out something that dares transfer

Without warning, the land rumbles and shakes, stones tumble, timber fall

Mayhem holding courtroom because the darkened land grows darker

By the shrill pitch of bloodlust, the flying winged stingers are beginning to rise

Bloodsucking, ravenous swarms carve although the timber at breakneck velocity

Fight or flight, combat or flight, and my legs simply began transferring

Looking, looking for, ,my eyes scanning, looking out, someplace to cover

The plain now shifting, mountains rising in the space, holes opening

Astonished I watched the good elms pull up their roots and stroll

As stone reclaimed soil, hearth shall reclaim wooden

When the final splinters of sunshine are hidden in the shadows

Darkness guidelines with out mercy, the depraved shall really feel the lash

Death could be welcomed and but there can be no pardon

Heat rising because the stone melts to lava and the air fills with ash

Beasts rising from caves and underground lairs

Leathery wings and sizzling winds carry them over this nice horror

A second bolt of lightning rips by the darkness

Electricity prancing with a harmful grin

Smoke cascading whereas glowing sparks abruptly grow to be alive

Flames demonically leaping from stone to stone

A deafening flashover and the darkness is silenced with an amazing unholy gentle

Discarded branches, floor particles, all of it turns to liquid

From torchlight to raging bonfire; white sizzling

Sweeping throughout the every part with an amazing wall of searing ache

And the black lightning strikes once more and once more, stabbing and punishing

The acidic rain laughs and gathers darkness from excessive above and marries the fray

Flesh searing and the ache, a lot ache, breathless ache

Falling, stumbling, senses deserted, disorientation, screaming!

Is this the top, will the ache ever finish, make it STOP!!!

And then silence, and aid, however just for a pause

In the space, an amazing hammering reverberates

The pull of the bottomless pit by no means ending

Wicked souls pounding molten iron into hideous chains of submission

Pain of thousands and thousands, screams of a thousand generations

The nice burden is delivered to the unjust and introduced with a vengeance

You had your probability, however failed occasions three

Three Strikes and You Wake Up in Hell

You might run mortal, and chances are you’ll search the shelter of a short lived hiding place

But the eyes are all the time watching, and the grasp grows keen on leisure

The whisper creeps into your thoughts, blinding you with lucid readability

Pain, nice ache, however demise by no means comes

One, Two, Three strikes and you’re out

It’s a lethal type of sport

 

Additional Reading

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R.J. Schwartz is the proprietor of The Gypsy Thread web site, and the writer of all of its content material.  Use this hyperlink to go to the principle web page and discover articles on the unexplained, poetry, witchcraft, pagan historical past, and to seek out Full Moon and Pagan Rituals (all of that are free to make use of).  It is his perception that our historical past as pagans ought to be shared freely with everybody in hopes that extra folks return to the previous methods.

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