When waters run through thine soul A strike The chilling toll These cosmic bells You will know No more of flames -flames and shadows- Keep up this rant, this banter And burdens will be wrought by work's end ------------------------------------------------------------- Factions Refraction of deeds Yet done ------------------------------------------------------------- Deny all -yes- You are weary and faithless… -rest- Here-forth you shall not receive ------------------------------------------------------------- With waves or resonance impeded by void Voice had no presence This burden of silence Conveyed Deployed ------------------------------------------------------------- What appears before me In mirrored lens' light Captured in crystalline restraint Arrested In time Funneled through and focused On despair and loss of rite ------------------------------------------------------------- Spite does have no malice In the singularity of the night ------------------------------------------------------------- One last confession on betrayal's revenge I've not the disposition Of overwhelming desire Turn plague on one's existence Instead portend And thus inspire A call to arms Raise high the seal And journey onward Eternally Unburdened with silence