The Terror

I.

Witch moved her pawn forward a square

Michael moved his knight

Zap!

A ball of light shot up from the board

"Check"

Spiderthin fingers plucked a queen off her throne

Knight now swiped aside

His blood splattered upon her purple talons

The Angel grumbled

(...)

II.

Playing from memory

The Angel slid his final bishop across crimson drowned checkers

"Jayzeus!" inhaled the witch in surprise

She craned her queen of shadows down into position

Sealing the wax of fate

"Check mate", she wryly grinned

A fiery serpent rose up from the floor

"Well done faithful servant," breathed her opponent

Severed at the neck as if with a wire cutter

The head of Buddha landed on the gaming table

The remaining krishna-blue torso shriveling up and dissolving as indigo dust

It crumbled like a sand castle

Her Lord was dead

"Finally" she said,

"There is no God!"

III.

Heaven rolled away from Hell

The world was no more

The Shakinnah had returned to her Shiva or might we say visa-versa

And the fallen Seraph of the Wilderness began to melt all in its path

Every soul that remained became trapped in molten worms

The witch's queen vanished at the collapse of the matrix

And chaos ruled the sulphur sea

Into which God had shed ner hundredth name:

Al 'Irhab