lyrics

I stand upon the cliff

My hands upon the gate

Watching the waves below

Cause stone to resonate



I gaze upon a sea

Both raging and at peace

I know my place is there

When existence will cease



Obsidian plateau

Stretching from horizon’s singularity

Silent save the relentless exhalations

Of rending churn that roils



Carving, forging, year by year

Century by century

Generation upon generation

All consumed by thy languid embrace



Earth at once so hale and solid

Yet to dust and echoes falls

The caustic breath of time’s malice

This permanence appals



Granite shoulders rent by slews of time

On which men have placed their certainties

To sink into the brine

In a torpid slew of disinterment



This inexorable torrent

Relentless

Carrying a spirit-swarm on silty eddies

Echoes like ghosts drift upon timeless currents

Swarming like coils into thy seas



Eroded tithes, seabed tombs

Shifting sands, translucent auras



Under the waves, a labyrinth beheld

Murky totems to a lost world

In which the drifting remnants of our tribe

Sink into the cold embrace of the aether

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from Stone and Sea , released March 8, 2019

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