Awake at Time's End

Terrified of all my thoughts, jackal eyes in crushing dark. Phantoms ride the howling wind trying to snuff the fire out. Burn the witching hour with me, sing of timeless suffering To keep the sky from closing in, to keep the hills from swallowing. Rouse the dreamer from her sleep to walk the lonely dunes with me. Sand to count until we die, stars to map a nameless sea. When you first came I dreamed of snow, Though I'd never seen it before. A clear bell sounded in my soul, an echoing of what we were. With war a long lost memory, a past sunk deep in distant grief; War a future far removed, snowfall on the jagged peaks. War is riding on the wind, war will soon be swallowing. War will snuff the fire out, wed us to the earth again. God, demon, or only a man? Try, fail to kill me again. Bled, eaten, reborn of the sand; try, fail to kill me again. Hell, Eden, awake at time's end. Try, fail to kill me again. Crawl, scrape, blister and beg. Try, fail to kill me again. Burn out the heart! (From ash grows life.) Bring down the stars! (The seed survives.) Drown her in sand! (The sand provides.) Rip off her wings! (The swallow's flight.)