Consuming all dead
Across the land it grows and spreads
Infinite spores releasing
Propagation of the species
Using the flesh of victims carried higher
Behavior grows erratic
Hosting the parasitic
Influenced by hyphae
Compelling to march ever higher
Directed upwards by an infected brain
Hunting conditions considered perfect
Jaws clamp shut and lock into place
Infection spreads
The summit is barren with rigid body death locked
Separated thorax flowing free with cordyceps
Carried by wind
It bores itself into my kin
Growing horns
Spreading death
Mummified metropolis
Through every poor at once erupting
From every head a fruiting body
All life replaced by rotting corpse with brains converted to push out spores
The summit is barren with rigid body death locked
Separated thorax flowing free with cordyceps
Growing horns
Mental oblivion
Abusing the corpse
For reproduction