Bogleech.com's 2014 Horror Write-off:
" Red Gold "
Submitted by
thecuttlefishking
A red horizon broke too soonWhen the Walker strode across it.
Glass and brass the tint of gold, upon
Nine spindly legs it dances
The King had bought a grand machine
And it came to deliver.
A Scholar came to court that day
We found she was no wizard.
Knew not of gods, of fates, of spires
Knew frogs, and stars, and numbers.
The King had bought a grand machine
And she'd come to deliver.
The Scholar wore rich golden cloth
'Twas spun from "Spider's Silk."
Her convoy wore the same attire-
'S sheen, the same left ilk.
The King had bought a grand machine
Flecks scurried to deliver.
A mess of stone and blackened iron
Was not a mess much longer.
Like wasps the Scholar's Gearmen worked
And soon it was entire.
The King had bought a grand machine
And here it stood, delivered.
The Scholar gave us sheets of charts
And spoke Gods hadn't mercy.
The Walker spun away again
The Gearmen left at dusk.
Ev'ry King had bought the thing
Ev'ry Child heard bullets ring.
The Goldspun
Had
Delivered.