Coherence
Sunrise, sunset, throes of time – Then a thousand more Nightfall, daybreak, causes bind Now, again, before Pushed above colliding giants Into air that roared Forgotten fragments scarred my face Sculpted, frozen, thawed Towering, yet anchored; Holder of their breath Locus, shadow, turning point – Backdrop to their death The sweep of days that moulded me, Immense among the mists, Crafted also people who Would struggle, grasp, resist One such life unfolded here; She wept beneath the moon Exiled from her former life; Hiding, waiting, soon I saw around her all things change – Each a past component And I, too, was nothing that Endured beyond the moment I watched her live among her thoughts – Consumed as each occurred And as she drowned in memories, The past survived within her Vicious fears and vicious frosts Had followed her, it seemed, Through every moment of her life – Though sometimes my slopes gleamed Dread dispersed and passed away A process was undone New coherence followed soon – But, in that, I found no one Crumbling rocks near her old grave; I break and fall in time And, as each piece is blown away, Which part of me am I?
Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025
This track is instrumental.
This track is instrumental.
This track is instrumental.
In gleaming morning sun we ran Each day the day it all began A flare was lit between the worlds we wandered We bounded over broken log Across the steppe, beyond the fog To life in tiny fragments all felt bonded By chance one noon we saw someone Our words reached out – they heard us come But when eyes met, we glimpsed their hopeless sadness We asked but found we could not fathom What had sewn their sorrowed pattern So we fled that lake and all its madness But still we knew that life was good And through that scare, our joy withstood We found new thrills to chase and thoughts to wonder Our days unfurled with troubles not Through thistles kicked and thorns forgot ‘Til one day something new would drag us under In dappled light that time we roamed On higher land, our senses honed A place so cold and new we had discovered But then we saw we weren’t the first; A dreamer lay there, frozen, cursed Much more was lost than ever was recovered We ran, but this time with no joy Each stumble shaping man from boy A truth wept through from just behind life’s curtain What drove them to that lonely end? Is this the wound no one can mend? A bleeding out of all that had been certain Still others since have crossed our path; That man of buried aftermath And she who seemed to wait and hide forever So many moments came and went Yet none were kept, as dreams were spent And in this way old truths emerged together We can recall, I think, a time When footholds held and stories rhymed And now we see that those we met were grasping We know that they had felt it too, Until it left them, as they grew; To leave them looking back at us for asking Those elders smiled through gritted jaw – A deluge held, but held no more And as it broke, it brought new kinds of knowing Return the mind to where it was; We try, but it won’t go, because That mind has gone, and with it went a glowing
Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025