Our Bones Among the Ruins

A premonition of horrors awakens me from slumber
 A darkened reality eaten by entities unrecognizable
 What did I just see?
 Sweat trickles
 Through these dense and lively forests I walk
 Yearning to discover what it was
 This beautiful golden stream of life
 I mustn't walk too far in
 Obtaining cognizance is my only option
 Turn around, flee
 In time the grey smoke would surround
 Screams of agony
 Thick as fog at dawn but yet so shallow
 What energy shall I muster?
 My exertions are futile
 In shadows you have prevailed
 Your only door left open is that of defeat
 You have plagued for far too long
 I cannot allow you to leave
 I carry the key to the lock of the netherworld
 A realm lost to space and time
 Here is where you will dwell and relinquish your claim
 To the stranglehold you so fiercely grasp
 You forever withdraw to the blackness of inanimate existence
 Yet with peace restored
 The brightest light casts the darkest shadows