Resurrection

Weight of Silence

Density of Confinement

Eternal damnation

My immortal pronouncement

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Unable to breathe

Never to move

Yet comes from above

Abominations to prove!

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I stir!

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I rise!

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I push off centuries

Against all choice

I am awakened

Strange magic, strange voice

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Resistant to movement

I exit my sentence

That into which I awaken

A land of no acquaintance

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I go where I know not

Without consideration

I go where I’m beckoned

Imprisoned, another iteration

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Bound as I am

In ancient tatters I hang

Movement I am bidden

Insulting life that once sang

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The shuffling the dragging

The unyielding yoke

To others am I sent

And commanded to choke

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Heavy my heart!

Bloody my tide!

Forced to take lives

To which I have strived!

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Control I have not

Miss my dreams and my sleep

Thee who awaken me

I wish not company keep

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Their bidding  I do

But know here, know true

Thee who has clutched me

I am coming for you.

The Mummy Trilogy

• Entombed (fpdorchak.wordpress.com)