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Armageddon

Dead and decaying corpses cover the landscape,
Grotesque bodies swarming with greedy maggots
Over dead tissue, blackened, swollen and pus-filled.
Occasionally sounds arise from agonizing dying gasps for air,

As mangled bodies scream their last breath.
Their eyeballs bulging with fear, desperate hands rake their choking throats.
The evil creature runs free, released, committing unspeakable blasphemy.
Hail and fire mixed with blood rain down on the land.

Smoke from the bottomless pit blackens the sun.
Locusts attack and strike and bite with fatal wounds.
The oceans are filled with blood and dead creatures float lifeless.
Distant rumbles herald blasts of spewing lava

From angry volcanoes within the bowels of the dying earth.
Plague-infested rats scurry and scour through the remains.
And thus begins the reign of the rider of the pale horse called Death,
And the rider called Hell.