Evil Sorceress by Anna Elizabeth
A Voodoo doll from the Louvre
Fetched v3 by The Real Cie
Explanatory note follows the poem
Spellbound
(As told by Yadira Root)
Welcome to your nightmare, Poppet
Are the warbling ballads crooned into your shell-like ear
By the diminutive giant who has won your wanting heart
Worth the crushing, piercing pain
Pain visited upon you by a witch whose power
Was birthed in a furnace whose flames predate the forge of Hephaestus
A power far older than this miserable world
A power darker than the blackest depths of eternity
The disruptive snowfall which drifted this pathetic Fetch to your door
Can never soothe the baleful burns
Which I shall bestow upon your corpulent corpse
The memory of his kiss cannot distract you from pain of such magnitude
Don Juan he may not be
But he didn't have to be
To win the pathetic likes of you
All too easily
When I am done with you
He will be my eternal slave
His mind to serve my will despite his own
He is much more than his lowly exterior would suggest
And you I will keep my prisoner for eternity
Torturing the likes of you relieves my stress
You will plead with me to make each breath your last
Your cries will only gladden the dark heart
Of Yadira the Merciless
Created by:
The Real Cie
Polly Nguyen
Rose LeMort
Notes:
The prompt from napowrimo.net was to create an index poem. Cie wasn't really feeling that. So in a burst of shameless self-promotion, we went to the very first page of the blog for Team Netherworld's WIP story, Fetch, and created this poem in the voice of our tale's main antagonist, Yadira Root.
Yadira is an ancient sorceress, born in the first century CE to the Egyptian Queen Nathicana and the powerful Spanish sorcerer Iohannes. She is a powerful devotee of Nyarlathotep, who himself taught her much of what she knows.
Yadira has targeted English musician Gerry Clifford, who is suffering from dementia, to become part of a powerful hive mind over which she will maintain control. During his astral travels, the terrified Gerry encountered American medium Pepper Baiij, who promised to keep him safe. Yadira's resentment of Pepper's interference in her plans makes Pepper a prime target for Yadira's sadistic spells.
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