A time when the light falls clearly
A place where the struggle began
She awoke to take back her realm
And expunge the virus infecting man

A natural apostasy
Burn away the creed of frail minds

The liars sins we now embrace
Synthetic moralities will lapse
No lon

As the candles yawned
My world grew darker
'Til barely a detail remained

Parchment and smoke
Through distant chimes
Moths carried by the breeze

Her finger to my lips
I am stilled in an instant
I sip, and am numbed
From here the path winds backwards

A

Void has no resistance
As the giant stretches out
A tipping point's expansion
Sets astray a solar doubt

Warmth and glare on every crest
For cells compelled to crave
A pulsing sphere forgets its past
To bask in every wave

Dusk comes later with each day
And

It began, as these things do
From clouds in the aether
With untold time, they coalesced
Their will apart grew weaker

This cascade of embers
Fused into a star's ignition
A crucible for their collapse
Seething crux of its ambition

The axiom of this expanse
U

Name the aspect of oblivion
That instilled in you such dread
In the moment that was waiting
Where the causal chain had led

Describe the pure finality
Of that twisted, cold eruption
And attempt to comprehend
Unparalleled destruction

Unclench your teeth and meet

Fifteen times the leaves had shorn
Trod by boy and beast
Kith and kin to fare him well
The youngling parted east

The rite was whet and worn with time
As sons dared risk unseen
Mere passage had convinced the herd
And none defied routine

Eyes, fixed afar a trial

Countless times below me
Rivers rose and fell
Ageless stones eroding out
Across the endless swell

Songs to pave the seasons
Wounds to follow birth
Cries to carry through the night
Wombs to feed the earth

Countless skies above me
Each unlike the next
Li

The ridge had long hinted
At strong and at weak
Both threatening wall
And welcoming peak

A taunting horizon
For shortening years
One Sun, but two shadows
Equidistant fears

For my life I have watched you
Like my father before
Do I die without knowing?

Searching, the abstract colours reason
But i persist to fail in the absence of faith
Cycles bound by throes of attrition
Oft united, yet surely more is lost in time

Beyond fathom, billions firing
Flashes burn and spew prostrate
Wisped monads from crimson puncture
Ou

I knew you some years before
Deep in prayer under bough
Futile sighs in vital skin
Your flesh caressed by night

Yet change came quickly
A bruise in the air, it staggered within
Sweet sickly rot
Black wound infection

King, slave, child
Your fates are united

Just downstream from that dark place
Where last beats fell and waters churned
A man looked down upon his face
In reverie, his thoughts did turn
To follow the river is to follow the arc
It does not drift, it does not wait
Find its course with limb and mind
There walks

Through tainted mass
A scourge unseen
Brought three winters forth
And set between

After these hundreds of years
The embers and fate will collide
Her rotten heart has burst
And shattered through dead wood

When they drank from the earth, the end was near
Tra

The mountain kept a trove inside
That was known only to the three
Closest friends now that their greed
Had burdened them with things to hide

The entrance was a hidden window
Punctured through a narrow vein
To crawl inside as light would wane
And come to pitch in cav

After one but before the next,
In a tree where new life writhed and flexed
Two birds emerged to hold the world
And grow from feeble talons curled

But fate would see them part that day
As lightning cut their branch away
By winds to distant places sent
Almost as if it

Light’s flash within the pall
Always there, yet unaware
A thread that runs through all

Time bleeds through while
From order they, to disarray
Are torn from the thread

And so

In the space of one night's darkness
They have gathered, somehow drawn
To where sand and water meet
To the place where nature mourns

An army of one thousand souls
Moved not by force of law
But by an end of which they dreamt
Returns to wade once more

In the sha

In death she spoke of waiting
Her final days were long
These fields have changed since last she wept
Before the silent throng

She sits where childhood memories lie
Above, beside, within them
The carvings have outlived the hand
Which bled to first begin them

As

In charnel ceilings
Rain has formed
Held pendant over being

Ascendant night
Refracted light
The sky itself is seeing

Organic etchings
Bought at once
Unseen opposing forces

Diurnal hymn
Has stirred within
The vast divergent courses

Embedded in fertile plain
Snared in pulp and stone
Confounded being emerges
Surrounded yet alone

Surging growth in vigour
Morbidity at bay
Hale deceives the advent
Of cycles in decay

Winter's first marrow cracks
Mother bides the spring
Ne'er evade the