I am Providence

from A Dream Cycle by Ultharine

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Howard Philips is my name
An imp of ancient breed
Two hundred years too late I am
Wrought by tainted seed
Mother taught me as a child
How hideous I am
But perchance by writing hand
Redeem myself I can?

People’s gaze I fear by day
Nightgaunts haunt my dreams
Where through shadows I must thread
By Miskatonic streams
Horrid scenes of dread import
Imprinted in my brain
Blood-voice whisper must I then
Like father go insane?

I haunt their tombs, i thread damp soil,
By water and by gambrel roof
I was not made for workman’s toil
Upon these ancient streets by day I lack’d all confidence
In Rhode Island’s Providence.

A woman I was made to wed
She brought me far away
In mongrel-haunted Gotham town
She wish’d for me to stay
Ziggurats the sky there scrape
As in Babylon
Crawling vermin everywhere
Every foul deed done

I turned away, I turned to home
To tombstones and to gambrel roof
Ancestral grounds again to roam
Upon these ancient streets I have found my confidence
My home stands in Providence.

Out of aeons rise my dreams
Older than all names
Tyre and Babylon are young
As are man’s mindframes
Ignorance it is what keeps
Mankind sound and sane
Soon enough is mine to thread
Sweet oblivion’s lane

I cling to stone, I cling to soil
To water and to gambrel roof
I dying cling to writing’ s toil
Upon these andcient streets that emanate my confidence
I am, I am Providence.

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from A Dream Cycle, released December 18, 2016

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