Forbidden Knowledge

Sought solace in the solitude of my inner chambers
Encumbered in piles of books and pillars of shadows

None of them I would dare to step on
Nor linger my thoughts over them
As there are things that do not live
I didn't wish to wake

Usually ensnared in the threads of abstraction

Was I now leaned over some obscure literature
Heeding not my own apprehension
More desirable would I be
Staring at the abyss with full intent
Than facing those inconceivable symbols

Whispering madness to my ears
Inconspicuously summoning archaic fears

Far too literal and more influential

Than my previous endeavors

And as profane and obscene as it was

What I was unraveling there

The door behind me was neglected and ajar

Making possible any unwanted attention to find it's way in
Or rather aid the escape of some entity too eager to slip through
Not that the most impenetrable walls would halt their advance

Not a moment too soon
The implicit invitation did lure some unexpected guest
A figure steps in, made of silence, not even a murmur
But I could feel it's shadow and spite

Hovering over the wooden floor

Weighing down on my backs

Halting my feeble breath
As a vertigo shooks my entire anatomy
I begin to turn around to face such dreadful being

Though my eyes were useless to comprehend
The eerie, vast silhouette that it chose to reveal
Other than it's actual formidable architecture
And even if no words have been pronounced by this apparition
It was clear to me that it did not find me worthy to address it
Less even, to clarify my nauseating perplexity
But in a flash of horrific disclosure
It's ulterior motives became very clear
Unspoken revelations that did not come to pass
For my heart ghastly with heresy
Liberated me from such unearthly fate