As Island Sink

Abandoned by the light
If we die here
Lay me by the river

We feel the orbits realign
Watching as islands sink
And everything we love burn to the ground

Muting
The cries of abhorrence
The smoke clears the way in the night
Amidst a whelm of treacherous adoration

Burying
Defiled memories
South of where the cinders fall
Bringing forth
The semblance of consolation

Through the veil of darkness
A cold serenity
Erases all but
The promise of a coming day

Ominous is the waters’ elegy
A harbor that’s long been denied
To bestow
Penance or condonation

Across the night eternal
We close our eyes to see
An ivory tower
Collapsing in the heart of every man
In perennial defiance of the wild

Not from the echoes of the deep
(Nor from the rustling of fire)
The crowds so feebly were deafened from the serpent’s song

Not by the moonlight over hill
(Nor by the outlines of pyres)
Our eyes glimmer to shards of lacerating northern stars

Abandoned by the light
If we die here
Lay me by the river

We feel the orbits realign
Watching as islands sink
And everything we love lost on the ground

Like captives of the night
When we die here
Let us be delivered

Our eyes become a satellite
Watching this island sink
And the strain within
Grow until we drown