A plague has now descended on the land

To steal the breath of many it corrupts,

So questioned as an act of god or man,

From whence or where—all souls to feel its touch.

A dread contagion Ramses may have feared,

As unseen vapors floated in thin air;

That would have made him don his postiche beard

As he sought councel begging Heka’s care.

But here no mastery sways this new day scourge,

Damned devil from an unknown lab unchained,

A sinister stratagem from which emerged

A Frankenstein that ravaged, uncontained.

A pestilence beyond sheer vile disease—

An evil that brought Earth unto her knees.