Hypnosis

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Keep breathing. Do you hear it? The sound of your heartbeat. A steady thump-thump. Now look behind you. What do you see? A shrewd reflection in the mirror, a translucent figure mimicking your wolfish face beyond the window, or just the abyss? 

I’m none of these. In the deepest chamber of your despicable heart, I am the worm eating your insides and picking at your gut. Bit by bit. Bite after bite. Devouring you.

Feel it. Feel my way into your deepest desires. Despair is your friend. Let it consume you. Do you see what I see? Infested by lust, drugged by sex, controlled by depravity: animalistic, bestial, and vulgar. Do you see? Do you really see? The beast within.

There’s no escape. Surrender. There’s no God here. Let me in. There’s no point in denial. Let me consume what afflicts your mind and set you free. You belong with me, with the Prince of Darkness. Every inch. Every unattended space. A servant worth my time. 

When I snap my fingers, you’ll come alive. 

One, two, and… three.

Now open your eyes. Look at me. Honour me. I’m the only God you need here, in the depths of the earth, six feet under, in the abode of the damned.

The Holocaust and the Nakba personified.

My kin.