They sang the tune of every day, the voice of monotony

They hailed the soldiers of the skies, rising sun of acrimony

Suspended in the heavens, the thurible of the deity’s beckoning

As a pendulum circling the globe with the perfume of reckoning

 

The human animal’s bonds shake, forever blind to their plight

Never tasting the shame of their fall nor the failure of their blight

As a spring that once promised wealth and prosperous growth divine

Of enlightenment of the mind that as a tarnished lamp does shine

 

Speak for the winds that howl your name, Masterful deity beyond the cloud

For mortals have conquered not their ignorance, death seeking its shroud

And the power of numbers and letters fall from their gilded seats of grace

As sacrilegious demons vampiric thrive upon the knowledge they debase

 

I felt the tremble in the folds of the firmament, the crease of filmy wings

The sunray that eluded from the leaping tears of the faraway angelic kings

I felt the light passing through shadow its reach as light as a flower’s breath

Inexorably evanescent, as striking as the finality of death

 

If my heart is made to break, then the strings were made to tear long before

I captivated in my imperfect eyes the glimpse of beyond that mystery’ door

Was that the light bearer that passes by, with earth that beams in summoning joy

Or was it the guttering brilliance of my soul’s madness that does sanity destroy?

 

The mere glint in His eye as his gaze swept over the stillness of earth

Did suffice to quench the rambling tumult of the marshalled legions of dearth

What was a mere whisper of the void, was a lost tune in the forbidding echoes

Of the slumbering mind’s vain attempts to supress the awakening throes

 

So bowing before the immovable force, the image beyond the distorted mirror

There was never a more perfect charade for the reaping of souls chained in furore

Us that watch the ages, as that thurible of time measures our weakness of perception

Hypnotised by the trappings of mortality, that weaves the most alluring deception