From the ashes of a southern star into barren ground From the void of purpose Slowly into a narcissistic construct of time A frail asylum In steady decline Your body bears the mercy of nature's violence And unrivaled resilience Shown through aeons before Indifferent to the sight of your spawn starving Come the last light It won't be long Either we'll rise Or the skies will fall From the source comes a warning From the clouds, poisonous rain From the ocean echoes a plead From the spear bleeds a shame And we do it all over again Cold sun Casting the shadows of all that is dead and gone Forged into the chasm of winter's throat Grown blind to the rivers running red Cold sun When will it finally take us home? Ephemeral asylumIn rampant decline This body bears no resemblence to God Unrivaled persistence Through aeons beyond To harvest more than what our hands can sow The cycle of fate Will never see an end And when the break of halcyon days Have long passed you by When the last of you Have walked the last mile Before the dawn When nothing grows In this fallow garden Let it all come down Spiraling away On downward waters My sacrifice