The Atavistic Forest

From the ancient stones I walk through the shadows Orchestrations of life deemed a separate path With my hands I embrace the circle of life Caressed by spirits once through death Haunting silence dwells upon this starlit forest Creatures from the dark soon bare witness to the sun Condemn those without my whisper by their side Release my mind from echoes of madness This cold layer of ice shall never thaw My dark embrace will never die The hourglass of time follows us through the stars The howling winds of old, carried through the misty trees My eyes behold no sign of life Staring down to darkness Dreams besiege the fallen stars Among the dead We are Reclaiming this life For the Transcending matter No more Relinquishing worlds Calling us To our home Fallen stone Take my throne I am the past I am the future Lost in my chambers now treading behind Falling back to shadows where no life survives Drifting realms beneath my surface Their seeds conceal an open ocean The river's mouth silently opens Revealing The Atavistic Forest My hands placed against the fountain Endorsing darkness to cast the light away Soil from the ground is dying No tree shall grow again The sound of snowfall forever more The hourglass of time drifts away in the night The burning touch of ice, frozen all the life Rising roots to the sky beyond the frozen lakes Within the fading woods of The Atavistic Forest Beneath my trees Atop my lifeless soil Silence I bow to you