(Petrified In The) Hypogean Gaol

Blast off
From the lunar settlement
Orbiting moonbase
Looms overhead

Nuclear core
Ignites and consumes
Blighted dwellers
Hover lifeless in stasis

Internal atmosphere
Is spewing out
Yet the targeting course
Is unaffected

Bludgeoned escape pod
Drowns in moisture
From the oxygen rich
Composition

Towering spires
Reach for the thermosphere
On the bleak horizon
Plagued in black ore

Old earth laments
In dismic woe
Lingering throes
Of this alien world

Glide over foliage
And into the soil
Leaping quadrupeds
Scatter the land

Outer seal of the capsule
Released

As tempestuous utterances
Spew from beneath the ground
In a scoured
Beyond alien tongue

Speaking inoculated
Truth of a perennial quest

Tribal clans tell
Of a chthonous terror
Where ancient structures ooze
Beneath miles of mud

They lead me deep
Into the heaving earth
Where an age old bas-relief
Is sculpted inevitable

A grand triptych
Of a celestial emissary
Unleashed from
Its hypogean gaol

(Hovering undescribable thing: Riley)

Enraged in translucid stimulus
Through divine emanation
Petrified embryotic dormancy

Adar kaimanu ag-kia-zi
(Translation
Satur: Fire to the earth spirit)

(Spurned immortality mythos I: Riley)

(A riposte of crepsculated
Lunar presence: A. Bradley)

(Tumultuous meridian occurence: J. Bradley)

Upon pensive waters
The beast is defeated
In cacophonous splendor

Vanquished
By moonbase cannons
Quantized
For moonshot blitz

It flees through
A tremendous portal
An astral conjuration

Plasma trails arcing
From garroted
Ancient spoils

As cystic marrow falls
Its cortexial cruor
Visibly spills
From the frontal lobe

Miasma of dying titan flesh
Its molten corpse
A harbinguous cenotaph

(Spurned immortality mythos ii: Riley)