Songs of Descent

SING IN THE DARK a new song, a wordless song. Raise the tocsin and the bone flute. Speak in the voice of the drum. Sing for the loss of the King: sing for the loss of Willbreaker. ORYX OUR GEOMETER shaped us. Before Him we were nothing: Without…

A call from the empty chambers From the small and the weak Reach into the deep, siblings Reach into the deep, cousins Taken from among the many stars by the King Shaped anew and set adrift We were nothing We are nothing We will be nothing Raise…

A CUTTING SONG, A SHAPING SONG A RESONATING CRY IN THE THIN AIR FROM THE FIRST AND THE LONELY How wide the sea and how broad the plane How far the journey Before I find you? The light-in-dark The outflung spark from the hateful mother I cry out to…

A CRY FROM THE LAST RESONATING FROM THE FIRST SPOKEN BY THE RESHAPED FOR THE UNSPEAKING: AS HAND IN GLOVE, as knife in sheath So I am to you, says the will So you are to me SING ORISON, make entreaty Invoke your god Until it walks among you MY…

A song of the King In challenge and hate Sayeth Oryx, Lord of Shapes New-crowned King of the Taken An echo of strength unfading Where are my soldiers? Where are my sons? I chart the screaming sea, I chart the endless dark. Bound to see, to know, to…

A silent song, a whispered song A quiet song in the broken sea Spoken without speaking By the will without [My] blade reshaped speaks for [me] In inhabited dimensions, on the rich fields Between the stars A sweep of its arm and atoms scatter…