Ornery Poetry: The Magician

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In dreams of magic in worlds beyond

While you run free through colorful lands

Have a care not to fall for the deception

Of the Dark Pharaoh’s sleight of hand

For all your willpower and self-reliance

May be but a contrivance

When the Dark Pharaoh pretends to be your friend

And he fills your ears with what you want to hear

Your imagination will be your undoing if you succumb to his wooing

And you are dragged down in the darkness

Magician, beware the deception

Of the Dark Pharaoh’s shriveled black heart

Magician, beware the deception

Of the weavings of the Dark Pharaoh’s art.

Greetings, fellow poetic types. This poem is excerpted from one of Team Netherworld's current WIPs, "Toys in the Attic." It is attributed to the fictional band Blue Mondays. The Dark Pharaoh is an allusion to Nyarlathotep, the trickster god of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

An excerpt from this latest chapter of Toys in the Attic appears here, as well as information on how to purchase the full chapter.

https://www.naughtynetherworldpress.com/2020/07/charity-sunday-26-july-2020.html

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