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Of Tooth and Root
07:18
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Standing proud, the elders dream
Slow to take root, rise patiently
To an enormous size, so self assured
Magnificent for all in the grove
Blots out the sky, an earthen lifeline
To the sacred before the void
In an instant to be felled!
In the tooth of man, fate to be held
Their legacy reduced, ancient wisdom infused
with so much sawdust and churned soil,
blood and toil...
And though they stood for so long here
whispering triumphant for all to hear
once fallen, nothing can recall them
Though nothingness will exact it's vengeance.
Could I be at once the tree, the chainsaw and the logger?
Could we be at once the sea, the river and the fish sent to slaughter?
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You ask me to ask the gods
But the gods sing only of death here
You tell me to seek their wisdom
But the words have been severed at the throat
So I tell you, there's nothing left
The roots have been broken,
The trunk ground to mulch,
and the boughs are burning in thankless fires
I stand on the cliff hearing nothing
But the moan of the broken earth groaning
Rattling against forgotten promises
Of the stewards, shattered so long ago
And placed in a shallow grave
Shattered with the coming of the blood red tide
and the rising of the carnelian moon
So we drink this fetid nectar
And dream of the life that still might cling here
Still a somber recollection of the death we gift upon the land
To compensate for cultural deficiencies denied
In the name of the children we've damned.
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Lust turns to moss
Ash fills my mouth
The essence is lost.
Flesh of the gods
Sentenced decay
Rapture awaits
As the bones of giants formed
The mountains old;
So too we form the hills and paths
Upon which we are lost
So lay down your weathered heart
Cast off your tattered soul
We shall find a way
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MacLir's Wrath
05:37
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Of Wolf and Hound
10:00
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Cailleach crawls forth from the hills
Betwixt and between the sageroot and dirt
Lies her home in the frost and the mold
Decrepit wretch!
Her light does not shine
For starving hounds seek her out
Without rest
To bring her down
Cut short her breath
With foaming mouths
They seek to dine
On her flesh!
But still, robed in shadows she flies
And from the cliffs of Coire Bhreacan she cries:
"The arrogance that bears fruit from deciduous forests,
Assumed eternal greatness and wealth.
Behold the opulence of this world while the summer sun burns!
But oh, we await the winter
As leaves fall and boughs splinter
Holy regicide that the lowliest worms demand."
And smoke shall blot out the skies
as the smoldering summer sun dies
The crone is awoken from slumber
Invoking the storms and thunder
Teeth formed of rust,
The air that she breathes is tainted with ashes and dust
As waves roar higher and higher
Her rage tears mountains asunder
And the hunter's moon will rise
Her wolves will at last thrive
And feast on our legacy built of disgust
And formed by the lust of the broken supposed
"Magnificent man"
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Archaic Earth Mount Forest, Ontario
Born of dripping moss and delving roots, formed in the dark places beyond the veil and sung by the fire and fury of creation itself.
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