in darkness eternal
under the shining land
visions of forever
keep tearing into me
there was a river
a land of joy
lush and vibrant, once
a people of joy
gazing into the void
learning the first spark
a people of order
crafting for the void
smithing the second spark
a people twisted
pulling from the void
merging with the third spark
a people brightless
voiding the forbidden
servants for the spark
---
the spark requests
and the machine delivers
and the order twists
and another voice, silenced
in brightness
under the sparkling land
visions of temporality
an oath intermittent
a shineless star
a servant
an oath forgone
a starless shine
the servant
in darkness
under the shineless land
a tear
in the tearing darkness
a teared veil
to keep the tearing at bay
a prophet woken
under the eternal skies
a people bound
for a service
a people pleading
for a relief
a prophet leading
towards the thief
the thief of meaning
a friend
the people pleading
for relief
a gift of heaving
for the pleaders
not bestower of relief
the heaving people
frayedness their virtue
the burning of meaning
a task progressing
a hefty progression
their meaning
a taskless evening
their relief
the meaning becomes
a progression
the heaving becomes
their symbol
a cry of warnings
from their neighbours
a signal for wariness
from their peers
the warnings forgotten
grand lifting to sky
the safeties foregone
grand heaving becomes