Enantiodromia

I have come to bring death, terror, and destruction
Yes, the arkhè of this world is fire
But for all the smoke that rises
Something must also come down

Should their scales be gripped
Should they sneer at the dance around balance
The sentencing from the stars will scream
Death, silence, and oblivion

The wise claim there are, in truth
Many different fires burning with different smoke
Most of them vain and very few divine

I have come to bring death and destruction
For the arkhè of this world truly is fire!
And for all the smoke you see rising
Something will come down on you
Blazing and burning shall it come for you

Smitten sore with wretched wrath
Under the light of burning stars
Three hundred gods say murder all

Behold the arch-fire
Ignited by entire swarms of locusts
Tentacles of war and fire
Just as war is thrice holy
Behold and beware as we join the dance

Light turns into darkness
Lively noise yields to silence
And heat surrenders to the cold
All that was dry
Has now become drenched in liquid

A cosmos within the cosmos
It is mankind, the gods
And all the devils of creation at once
And something else, something new
It’s a power beyond you
Untamed, and growing exponentially
I have come to bring death, and destruction
I have come to bring death, silence, and oblivion

You will be made to remember
The time when mountains were your cathedrals
You will be made to remember
The time when the ocean was your womb
You will be made to remember
The time when fertile soil was holy ground

No matter how high a tower you build from the skulls of fallen foes
No matter the multitudes of cities reduced to rubble
The child of man has already been awakened and fed
The child of man has already been unleashed

And He has come to bring vile death
And He has come to bring ruin
And He has come to bring silence
And He has come to bring an end
And He has come to bring new life
And He has come to bring pure light
And He has come to bring concord
And He has come to bring order