Azathoth Redux

Azathoth spans the Universe;
Azathoth is the Universe;
there is no Universe,
but there is Azathoth.

Spiraling, spinning,
twisting the Universe around himself,
twisting himself around the Universe,
no Midgard Serpent ever so vast,
or so poisonous.

The Midgard Serpent,
Earth-engirdling,
tiny, puny.

wrap yourself around a world?
All Worlds wrap themselves around Azathoth.

Leviathan,
described in books you can read
while retaining what you believe is sanity.

Azathoth, the Nothing in Everything,
the Emptiness at the heart of plenty,
the famine of mind,
the drought of soul,
ten thousand disasters,

and that’s just the beta or gamma,
far from the core of the thing,
that’s just what words can encapsulate,
that’s what we can almost comprehend;

If we see vast Azathoth
as something we might capture in a thought,
describe in Human tongue,
we can deceive ourselves that Azathoth is not real.

Azathoth the Eternal,
Azathoth the Endless,
Azathoth the Consumnate End,
the Consumnation,

sightless, eternal,
Azathoth knows there is a simple gate
to perception:

take all
assimilate totality
be everything

and then
all that is not Azathoth,
is not,
and need never be known.

Azathoth, Azathoth,
remove our uncertainty,
our fear,
our Human terror,

give us
you,
you,
you,

and let us be free
of us.

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“It’s a little-known fact, but Unicorns are something like 20% paint, and their horns are stolen exclusively from endangered species.”
― Jeff Mach, There and Never, Ever Back Again

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