28th September 2016

Prompt- Write about the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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The white horse thundered  across earth, like a flash of silver lightning.

The sound of it's hooves piercing the silence of a placid night.

Upon it was a rider , his eyes as sharp as the arrow in his quiver.

He was the white rider, the one who came to conquer.

The barbed arrows from his bow subjugated the world

And his crown ruled the world with pestilence

Then came War, his mighty sword  glistening in moonlight

Upon a scarlet beast, whose eyes burned like hellfire.

Battles, slaughter and sanguine rivers that tainted the soil,

The earth plunged into crimson chaos and unquenched bloodlust.

He came with a weighing scale, the third one.

On a coal black stallion that trotted through the streets.

His master casting upon the world, the curse of famine and hunger,

And the world surrendered their souls at his feet, for a grain of rice.

His horse was pale, the ashen tinge of  demise.

Followed by Hades, the fourth rider came.

Reaping the dying souls left behind by his predecessors.

He had no armament , for he was the ultimate weapon-Death.

Too grim? The topic was Irresistible though.