The Nameless City

from Specimen by Ultharine

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The Nameless City

Nameless though not yet forgotten,
A rumour of unsettling dreams
Deep in the emptiest quarter
Sand scorch'd by merciless beams.

The dreams of the arab that mad made him scribble
"That is not dead which can eternally lie".
The riddles of ages long dead and forgotten,
With these stranger aeons even death may yet die.

What was old in the time of the ancients
What stood before the first desert sand
Once at the coast of an ocean
A harbour now in desert land.

Found in cold moonlight are its wind-wither'd ruins
Odd-angled remains abomination in sand
Dimensions pecuilar and the lines intersecting
Could such structures have been wrought by human hand?

Deserted city mongst the shifting sands
A damning sight to see
The nameless city beyond deserted lands
How can such madness be?

Man was not first of Earth's rulers
Neither shall he be its last
'Fore yet the dawn of his rising
The spell of his downfall was cast.

The spectral remains of a once-mighty empire
Withers away in Ozymandian drift
Hiding the gateway of another dimension,
Chiming it through is a Constantian shift.

Deserted city mongst the shifting sands
A damning sight to see
The nameless city beyond deserted lands
How can such madness be?

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from Specimen, released May 29, 2016

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