Midnight passage
Winter frost
Cloud across land
Milk of the moon
Silent, gentle parade of tears
Each a broken dream
Vacant scream
Scattered beads of the dead
Lonely trail upon the spine of the earth
Jagged edge unto eternity
The unity of fallen feathers
Where souls gather above beast and man
Flower of our innocence
In the garden of precious thought
Sunbeam, radiant valor
Solitary kiss welcoming the spring
Alpine mist
Gracious fog
Lost spirit
Wondering song
Beat of tribal drums
Folded sounds
bouncing against the wind
reverberating echoes
Of this wilderness we sing
From chaos we emerge
With eyes lit by ancient truth
Captured rays of hope vanishing with the sun
Upon the pinnacle
Braved alone by giants
Gliding purified essence
Communion with Him who hath created us
As the seed
Thrown into distant space
Spiraling, escaping, departing
For a dwelling place belonging to new dreams
Thrown until the dawn
As ashes unto lost graves
In the sanctuary of eternity
At the crossroads of empty fields
With the strength of butterfly
Flapping wings in a wild wind
Stationary, moving neither forward nor back
Tossed from side to side waiting to depart
In a land where blood lies fresh
Of a world when fire and fury reigned
Cursed men seek rebirth
Humbled masses offer their finest wealth to atone for a wicked age
For this is the time for heroes to rise
For this is the time for purity to settle in the soul
For this is the time for separation and emergence
As one man walks into the flames and sings in harmony with immortality
One by one
Into flame
One by one
Unto death
One by one
Out of nothing
One by one
each a new life
As eagles rising
Taking to the sky
A flock of angels
Bathed in flames
For when the earth cries
Its tears heal the soul
Mother of pearl
Mother of man
For those who wait
At the mouth of the river of fire
Comes a legion of the noble thunder birds
To carry the old, the young, the weary to peace
beside the lake of thermal springs
Begins again the ways of our hallowed youth
With a thousand campfires, each a beacon of hope
beneath a flame filled sky where eagles and angels dance
Some say it never happened
Some say it will happen again
But all bow their heads in gratitude
At the sacrifice of others, and the noble deeds of noble men
