Chalice Of Dying Ember

A chalice forged from shattered stars One drop of dawnmy dying creed The preacher's wrath brands ecstasy scars "Repent" he screams "the light's a weed!" Yet shadows drink what saints deny A thief of flames left reason dry Oh Saqi of the soulless age Pour the night where prophets rage The scalpel carved our fervor bare Cold logic chokes the throats of prayer *Who drowned the sun in ink and wire?* *We kneel to clocks yet crave the pyre!* A psalm of dust a hollow spire *The truth we sold to buy the liar* *Oh drown my despair but the ember still breathes in the mire!* They shackled thunder tamed the storm Mapped the veins where wild hearts bled Now laboratories sterile warm Dissect the ghosts our passions fed The blade of love? A rusted myth We barter awe for algorithms The Saqi laughs in poisoned wine "*You mourned the fireyet lit the shrine?* A spark survives in ash's womb *Strike the void let chaos bloom!*" The goblet cracks the ember sinks A blackened sea where heaven drinks But in the deep a seraph's scream *The last light drowns yet dares to dream