Have you come across H.P. Lovecraft before?
Randolph Carter is a legendary character often appearing in Lovecraft’s eerie, occult atmospheric works—with mythical invitations, unknown realms, and imminent life-changing situations.
He represents a dreamwalker stepping into cosmic darkness and engaging forces beyond the boundaries of reality.
And of course he loves poetry. Maybe he's just like you?
A profound storyteller.
Channeling Randolph Carter
(A lone voice whispers)
At the Most High Temple, on the unmapped mountains
Once climbed recklessly by illuminated souls such as Nostradamus or Louis Bellefontaine
To meet the neverending sensation
The imperceptible incarnation emitting that magnetic pull and lull in the falling rain
Which haunted their every waking second and vivid day dreams
With its unwarranted invasion
Who many contemporary colleagues
Then viewed as touched with a trace of darkened Lilith Madness
For when the Mighty Dagon
The mythical beast of the Deep North Sea
Heard my calls for knowledge and wisdom
Sent blowing like paper boats
Sailing through the world's silence
Of the vicious violence in the Middle East
Overflowing with prayers, spiritually charged with erratic need
He, too, sent me a personal invitation
Which would lead me into a new age of transformation
To the lonely place where I lived by the raging sea
Known only to a select few
As The Shadow and Key
The Dagon, an invisible invader of the human thalamus
The Dream Walker
Whisperer in the darkness
Came to me in Kansas
At midnight
With lightning and thunder announcing his sudden arrival
At the Shadow and Key
It told me deep occult secrets
Only kept in the heavily guarded vaults
Beyond the Blue Door of the Marianas Trench
Sealed by incarnations and potent harming spells, to deflect the Broken
Seething and entrenched with dark dreams, seeking only revenge
It spoke of red wars and red rivers
Broken dreams
Torn minds and souls
Power-hungry controlled pawns used by unspoken things like it
Supernatural creatures
Which create their new forms of piety by handing out subliminal lyric sheets
So they can keep the hypnotized singing their war songs
It warned me of a lady in blue
A shadowwalker who would soon call to the Shadow and Key
And offer me glorious pleasure as we lay entwined by the sea
It said chose wisely for the red wars
The red rivers of broken dreams and torn minds and souls
Would soon need someone strong
To lessen the blows from those pulling the strings
For the unseen monsters in control
Someone to soothe their pain by illuminated prose
And then, with a crash of white lightning
Striking the fireplace clock
Right in its timekeeper's small face
It was gone
The Mighty Dogan told me a time and date
She would arrive
Idh-yaa, or to some Quum-yaa, Cthulhu's Mate
(C) Copyright John Duffy
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