A sudden shard of music

A god-forsaken start

An archangel spirit moving

Through the valley of my heart

A rising tonal ending

A loss of inner faith

A gradual climate warming

A snaking smoky wraith

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In stopping endless errors

Could be a peasant win

But the global lords kept selling

Their thinly lauded sin

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And still you slowly walked on

And spoke of many who had lied

But all around you saw that

All shallow hope had died

You walked to seek an answer

You walked to beat a drum

You walked to build a future

When you knew that there was none.

The epoch end was coming

Backs stretched across the wire

The final stand of Adam

Against solar swords of fire.

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A hidden labyrinth

A place for us to run

A percussive silent sound

Tracer bullets from the sun

A last kiss was an apple

A bible stated curse.

A single word of wisdom

In ancient nonsense verse

Our fortress neatly breached

No one wondered why

The masses meekly mingled

Their faces to the sky

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And still you slowly walked on

And spoke of many who had lied

But all around you saw that

All shallow hope had died

You walked to seek an answer

You walked to beat a drum

You walked to build a future

When you knew that there was none.

The epoch end was coming

Our backs against the wire

The final stand of Adam

A climatic funeral pyre

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They could have heard your story

When the Earth began to burn

They could have made a difference

Now that difference lies astern

But you finally guessed the answer

On the road to Jeremiah

That the seed for new beginning

Needed stubble from the fire

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The epoch end was coming

Our backs against the wire

The final stand of Adam

As we return into the mire.

The epoch end was coming

Backs stretched against the wire

The final stand of Adam

Against solar swords of fire.

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Copyright: Rod de Lisle