Be'lakor

A time when the light falls clearly A place where the struggle began She awoke to take back her realm And expunge the virus infecting man A natural apostasy Burn away the creed of frail minds The liars sins we now embrace Synthetic moralities will lap...

As the candles yawned, My world grew darker ‘Til barely a detail remained Parchment and smoke Through distant chimes Moths carried by the breeze Her finger to my lips, I am stilled in an instant – I sip, and am numbed From here the path winds backwa...

Void has no resistance As the giant stretches out A tipping point’s expansion Sets astray a solar doubt Warmth and glare on every crest For cells compelled to crave A pulsing sphere forgets its past To bask in every wave Dusk comes later with each da...

It began, as these things do, From clouds in the aether With untold time, they coalesced, Their will apart grew weaker This cascade of embers, Fused into a star's ignition A crucible for their collapse, Seething crux of its ambition The axiom of this...

Name the aspect of oblivion That instilled in you such dread In the moment that was waiting Where the causal chain had led Describe the pure finality Of that twisted, cold eruption And attempt to comprehend Unparalleled destruction Unclench your teet...

Fifteen times the leaves had shorn, Trod by boy and beast Kith and kin to fare him well The youngling parted east The rite was whet and worn with time, As sons dared risk unseen Mere passage had convinced the herd, And none defied routine Eyes, fixed...

Countless times below me Rivers rose and fell Ageless stones eroding out Across the endless swell Songs to pave the seasons Wounds to follow birth Cries to carry through the night Wombs to feed the earth Countless skies above me Each unlike the next...

Searching, the abstract colours reason But I persist to fail in the absence of faith Cycles bound by throes of attrition Oft united, yet surely more is lost in time Beyond fathom, billions firing Flashes burn and spew prostrate Wisped monads from crimso...

I knew you some years before Deep in prayer under bough Futile sighs in vital skin Your flesh caressed by night Yet change came quickly A bruise in the air, it staggered within Sweet sickly rot Black wound infection King, slave, child Your fates are...

Just downstream from that dark place, Where last beats fell and waters churned A man looked down upon his face… In reverie, his thoughts did turn: To follow the river is to follow the arc It does not drift, it does not wait Find its course with limb and...

Through tainted mass A scourge unseen Brought three winters forth And set between After these hundreds of years The embers and fate will collide Her rotten heart has burst And shattered through dead wood When they drank from the earth, the end was ne...

After one but before the next, In a tree where new life writhed and flexed Two birds emerged to hold the world And grow from feeble talons curled But fate would see them part that day As lightning cut their branch away By winds to distant places sent A...

Light’s flash within the pall, Always there, yet unaware, A thread that runs through all Time bleeds through while From order they, to disarray, Are torn from the thread And so… 

In the space of one night's darkness They have gathered, somehow drawn To where sand and water meet To the place where nature mourns An army of one thousand souls Moved not by force of law But by an end of which they dreamt Returns to wade once more...

In death she spoke of waiting Her final days were long These fields have changed since last she wept Before the silent throng She sits where childhood memories lie Above, beside, within them The carvings have outlived the hand Which bled to first begin...

In charnel ceilings Rain has formed Held pendant over being Ascendant night Refracted light The sky itself is seeing Organic etchings Bought at once Unseen opposing forces Diurnal hymn Has stirred within The vast divergent courses 

Embedded in fertile plain Snared in pulp and stone Confounded being emerges Surrounded yet alone Surging growth in vigour Morbidity at bay Hale deceives the advent Of cycles in decay Winter’s first marrow cracks Mother bides the spring Ne’er evade...

Though wounds were great, and respite scant, Life clung to that wretched plant Its skin was scarred, its leaves were ripped, Damned to wait, as roots were fixed For every hour, in hopeless fear, It felt them leave then draw back near The insects drudged...

The purile form the weakened mind The pools that linger in our wake Compelled to act, yet not to think These are the lambs that will surely fall Borne out of fire, a new regime A beacon for the ancient gods Their empire crumbled into ash Let ignorance...

Descending through thickened mist An old man reached inside and tore out my slumber Ivory twists an open claw Set upon the skulls of man Formative years aside Truth blanched in sun's delusion But providence affirmed Destroyed my aberration Mortal seed...

The scene where the battle took place Now only whispers of that war remain Through fen damp and glade deep Crept the fog which was their bane Harkee the pain Welcome your death and the silence it makes As foe cleaves foe in the dawn Bodies are strewn a...

Silent but distant, Real but not seen Here but not happening, Forever has been Into this absence, Two had but strayed Retracing in circles, They surrendered, dismayed Behind them, darkness Ahead, the unknown So they stood, uninvited …But the roots...

The river had brought with it much that day From driftwood to blood from the ember Some things were hidden while others were seen Yet the man somehow could not remember Having ambled away from the water's banks to return to his tribe and their lights He...

At beginning of light Where the energy gathered Grew a sentience that was the prime Laced with flickers of madness As these forces drove out into dark And the fires began to form Each holding a mind of its own From whence the star gods were born The...

As I skulked past the gates And drew behind the stones The winding trees enveloped The cloak around my bones Peering through the night's mist I crept through the fen To try and find the totem In the grey warg's den The freezing forest guards The sec...

As the hunters surged within, The roof began to fall Fractured chitin underfoot, Whilst ichor soaked the halls Then gathering, the pack reformed, For once they’d all consumed, They flooded from the earth in which The hive was now a tomb A rushing mas...

Far from the Sun And that frantic dash Billions before it, To Earth, had crashed But in this expanse Where huge trees unraveled A new plant was struggling Where light seldom traveled This small searching stem Glimpsed dawn upon dawn, Dwarfed by gna...