The Abhorrent Art

Condemned, yet before I cast the befouled
 Contents of my mind across the wall
 I wish to unburden my soul
 That fateful eve we found ourselves
 In the shadow of an ivory cathedral
 Compelled to behold the ghastly grave of a ghoul
 And extract an artifact
 In an effort to quell life's ceaseless ennui
 We have descended into depravity
 The abhorrent art of grave robbery
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 Crack the lid, apex of our endeavor
 Round the neck of this corpse lay our treasure
 And when I seized the jade amulet it began
 Echoing through the graveborn mists as if calling from the abyss
 Distant baying, colossal entity hellbent on slaying
 And the foreboding gaze of an unnaturally well preserved corpse
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 A haunting presence of chilling
 Malevolence shattered our solitude night after night
 Baleful shades, creeping moonlight, and that accursed growl
 I had an inkling that we were jointly going mad
 Until the beast reared its loathsome head
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 Bloodcurdling screams shook me from sleep
 Shreds of my mangled partner littered the streets
 The assailant flashed demonic eyes
 And bayed as it took to the sky
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 No doubt the same fate would befall me
 Lest I somehow break the curse
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 Once again in the shadow of that ivory cathedral
 Crack the lid, unveiling the vile thing caked with fresh blood
 And shreds of flesh
 I cast inside the cursed jade amulet
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 Startled awake by the whirring wings and
 Torturous baying of that horrific thing
 A swift demise is the only mercy this world has left to offer
 Before I find myself betwixt those cursed teeth
 With this revolver, I embrace my fate and choose to obliviate