The Four Horsemen

Story by Velryn on SoFurry

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#1 of blurbs & poetry

Something that just came to my mind I just decided to type down. Marked adult for detail, death and violence I guess.


I Am Famine

I am the one who drains the water from your fields, drying out and rendering your crops to dust. I am the one, jutting and grotesque, stripping the sustenance from your livestock. I am the one who takes all strength from you, leaving but a husk behind. No seed will grow, no cow will fatten. I am hunger, I am waste, I am hopelessness.

I Am Pestilence

I am the one who poisons the waters in your oceans and in your bodies. I am the one who is silent but forever everywhere. I am the one who erodes your skin and lays waste to your tissue. I will blacken the land and lay boils into your eyes. I will be your writhing, inevitable end. Of what I will do, there shall be no cure. I am the great virus, I am disease, I am the waiting parasite.

I Am War

I am the great anger, the harbinger of never ending violence. Mounts will swim and bodies will drown in the blood that will soak your land. I will lead no army, but direct you to spill the blood of your loved ones. I am the voice screaming inside that drives your fist into that of your neighbor, that drives the dagger into the back of your brother. I will see you rip yourselves apart. I am destruction, I am desolation, I am the volcano of wrath inside you all.

I Am Death

I am the greatest mercy sent to free you from your torment. I am the one to bring stillness to a land once raped and a people so lost. I am the last thing you shall see, I am what waits to embrace you once your suffering is done. I am what you pray for as my brothers glean every last bit of hope and life from you. I am the ending to a chapter of hell and the beginning of something new. I am your fate, I am your greatest wish, I am the waiting embrace.