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Call His Name

Summary:

A short poem I posted in the comic's comments (the fourth page of Anathama, if you want the specific location) back in 2023. A little ditty about the Bone Fish that perhaps, long ago in the comic's world, might have been sung in school yards or chanted to the time of a jump rope...

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

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Cheth, Cheth, the Lord of Death

Call his name with your final breath.

Down the sands and grassy knolls,

Past the breakers and the sholes,

Below the waves ‘til you hit the ground

To where the boney fish is found,

White and black and gleaming red,

“Sorry, my dear, but you are dead.”

No need for dread, no time for tears,

This is the ending of your years,

Foul or fair, great or small,

True or false, he guides us all,

Struggle not, your time is done,

A final setting of the sun.

So prepare yourself, release your breath,

Open your eyes, and follow Cheth.

Notes:

Original note: ...look, sometimes you're rereading a comic at ten at night, then the next thing you know it's eleven and you're lying on your back staring at your ceiling while trying to do a mental deep-dive on a deity you know very little about, and then somehow it's midnight and poetry about a fictional deity and religion have happened. That- that's just how life works sometimes, okay? >_>U

2025 addition: I was feeling very frustrated and sad for Cheth at the time I wrote this, had read the Anathama interlude a few too many times, and stayed up too late. The exact concoction necessary to shake words lose from my head and splatter my thoughts on the page in interesting patterns. >u>