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Mystic Horizons

- Mystic Horizons -

It was not any thoughts of a conscious design, nor dreaming hope in gleaming splendor...
Which made it seem that with an arcane art, words could bridge the portals of the worlds.
Some think it mere fancy or fantasy, deception or lie, but the truth would drive them mad!
If they could but accept the grand visions, the revelations, the tapestry in all of its' wonder,
They would, I wager, still not trade their illusions away, likening them to precious pearls.
Only the worthy, I was told, could bear this burden of knowing, which makes some sad!
Who should be taught, and how should I teach, of those paths that bridge across realities?
Captivating will and heart, with woven verses filled with magic and arts most uncommon.
Across sands and woodlands, mountains and streams, in the wilderness between planes...
There have my feet and determination brought me, seeking after certain mystical rarities.
Sometimes I go as one bidden when a desperate mortal heart seeks so to call, to summon.
I am never as they expect I would be, as I do what I can to relieve them of hidden pains!

They cannot know the sights I have beheld, from which saintly sorts should turn away,
As ominous and terrible, the thunder resounds across skies which their eyes beheld not.
Unto the place of ruins, on the sacred world forbidden, in the shadow of its' vast form...
They come to the palace remnants, where looms the last tower remaining from its' age.
Abandon all reason you who would pass into that edifice, as well as all rational thought!
Embrace the darkness and the madness, and the calling of that great and terrible storm.
In all your praised science, in any wandering that might bring knowledge to your mind,
You would search in vain for the source of the magic that brings power to such places...
Where gods abide and spirits hide from the sight of those who choose to gaze too deep.
The places I can take you are far less than what awaits for people wiser to therein find,
Though there can be no joy for the brash, who seek in arrogance and all lack of graces...
Finding only emptiness in the halls where far more than ancient shadows would creep!

Near to the desolation even death ceases to bestow its' meaning unto certain who walk,
In the shade of my footsteps which have neither an origin or an ending in rightful way.
Weep not, for the realization that there is no going back once you journey at my side...
For, we dwell eternally outside, despite abiding in flesh that still death may thus stalk!
There are other forms of immortality and for them there is no high price for us to pay,
As we walk, across the roads between, and through currents of eldritch energy so ride.
Suffer not in seeking, but celebrate brightly and with no heed to those hardships past,
For all is as foreseen and as witnessed, by the shadows of the place where all is met...
One place of countless across a myriad of existences where sparkle all the same stars.
Despair not in finding, but laugh and love and know that though matter does not last,
We are far more, than is material, and not all of the future is by some fate already set!

Many are the horizons that await the eye that sees by choice rather than fleshly dictate,
Seek on and with your heart and intuition, that through the sands that seem but waste...
You may behold the oasis, and its' gardens, a hint of paradises that may come to exist!
There you will find trees bearing fruits which convey wisdom which can hungers sate.
Let me show you the waters of many lakes, so that of their sweetness you may so taste!
We may stand together, at the last, while before us lie wonders seen past parting mists.
Written by Kou_Indigo (Kara L. Pythiana-Ashton)
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