It's 2:24 am and it's been raining all day and night. I'm looking out into the darkness of storm and night. The night has caused the sun to disappear and the storm has blocked all manner of light coming from the cosmos. Aside from a swirling darkness all that is visible comes from the extremely brief flashes of light originating from the lightning striking. These flashes have changed my perception for this hollow world I walk upon. In this reality of vision, only through violent reactions of static, the natural world ceases movement until that grey blue light touches base. My reality becomes a series of black and white photographs. Time only moving forward during the shortest of moments. My heart beating to the rhythm of the strikes attacking this great spinning oblique ball of dirt and rock of ours. The thunder blasting its sound from the ripping of the atmosphere rattling me to my core. The time delay that sets my heart and body apart. The droplets of water hitting against my window. With my face up against the bars looking at the small splashes occurring at a seemingly random pattern. The raindrops sliding down the clear window leaving thin trails of themselves behind. The sky morns for me and what I have become. They angrily strike down knowing that even now I lie. My untruth has been stacked so high now it's leaning threatening to fall. I know it, they know it, and even you invisible beings for whom I write to, you know I lie. You the cursed man, you the forgotten women, and you my original companion. My lies have tied you each to me. Forever doomed to accompany me. The rain continues to pore on this ethereal land, flooding the depressions upon where we walk. Life cast away by the currents, downing with nothing to hold on to. I look out this lone view whilst in this dark and void like room. As my raindrops roll down the sides of my face.

It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know, by the name of Annabel Lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought, than to love and be loved by me. Now I stand in this rain with her. I still live with no other thought than to continue to love her. No power below god will ever be able to separate me from her. I would even stand against his word and defy his will. No matter the outcome I will always be with her, my Annabel Lee. No matter the choice I will always choose her, my Annabel Lee. No matter the enemy I will not concede. Let my foes come to break us apart and I will unleash a hell on them greater than any have imagined before. Should my battles cost me my life I can only find joy in it for I will forever be with my Annabel Lee.