Faint at first the drums beat, then louder.
I have been unchained, unleashed.
My cell has been opened.
I feel the rhythm beating within my chamber.
The furnace glows red and blood like steel boils.
Burning veins from within .
Outside vultures.
Circling, dancing in the sky on tattered wings.
Spitting venom.
Their shadows block out the Sun.
In darkness I stand alone.
The drums beat their monotone
The flame burns violently.
Fed by pain, my inferno.
It’s heat burns the darkness away.
Pain retreats.
I surrender myself.
With hatred engulfed I roam,
Incinerating the beasts, ripping out their tongues.
And when the fires subside,
I look back at glowing cinders and ash.
I flee, from myself, I return bound to Tartarus,
Alone .
Until the drums beat their monotone.