Daily Cascade

Fun with Words

Prompt:
Have fun with these words: sudden, tepid, intervention, brown, despised, gateway, and creature.

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Who says I can't try writing horror !

What If From a Gateway...


a *sudden crack in our *brown earth's seam
a *tepid whisper in the breeze of a dream

an ancient *gateway, now again revealed
with secrets *despised and power concealed

and the guardian awoke, eyes hollow and deep
as a *creature, rising from timeless sleep

it moaned an *intervention, or a warning clear
"Go and fix things!" I heard, despite my fear

then, the creature grew still and world turned gray
and his shadow danced in the fading day

was this a promise of fortune—or my doom,
for in that portal, the unknown did loom,

so I slowly stepped back and turned away
the choice was mine at the end of the day