silence, and the firmament withdrew

make all the cold trees mourn

their branches frozen in sightless motion

waving

reaching for the whipping rain

there was silence

and the firmament withdrew

revealing all

shapelessly and swiftly

in carmine and crimson stood flaming the sky

the relics of myths that exploded and died

dismantle the sun and stars in their rise

and rend from the skyline

the black in our eyes

the skyline so empty

all but one

nonexistent

words were not

nor gesture

thought or life

the skydancers laid slain and old

the firmament in perpetual withdrawal

lux aeterna - sing unto the world