Everything Falls, Everything Rises - Electric Bard

Specks of plaster hovering along the unlit stair Drifting through a column of suspended amber air Drop a copper token from the parapet lip Watch it spin and flutter in a parabolic dip Nothing stays anchored when the fulcrum breaks Tides pull backward through the mud the river makes Granite blocks levitate as supple as a feather Uncoupling the anchor from the leaden weather Feel the slow pivot curving down the lumbar spine Every wandering satellite refusing to align No tether bites when the center shifts round Skimming off the gravel while we gaze at the ground Everything Falls, Everything Rises In Turn Surrendering The Mass That The Atmospheres Burn The Heavy Turns Buoyant, The Summit Slips Low Swallowed In The Vortex Where The Currents Overblow Pivoting Easy In The Middle Of The Spin Where Nothing Cast Away Can Ever Tumble Back In Everything Falls, Everything Rises In. Iron filings dancing on a pane of quartz plate Realigned and drawn toward an oscillating state Diving through the ether then ascending once more Hovering above the flagstones of the cellar floor Molecules uncoupling, releasing their grip Taking the trajectory of an orbital trip North becomes south when the axis swings wide Coasting through the silence on a lazy downward glide Feel the slow pivot curving down the lumbar spine Every wandering satellite refusing to align No tether bites when the center shifts round Skimming off the gravel while we gaze at the ground Everything Falls, Everything Rises In Turn Surrendering The Mass That The Atmospheres Burn The Heavy Turns Buoyant, The Summit Slips Low Swallowed In The Vortex Where The Currents Overblow Pivoting Easy In The Middle Of The Spin Where Nothing Cast Away Can Ever Tumble Back In Everything Falls, Everything Rises In. Unmoored from the bedrock, unclipped from the weight Drifting past the lintel of the iron-banded gate No summit, no basin, no floor to catch the heel Just the quiet revolution of a subterranean wheel Dissolve in the vapor, sink into the stone Shedding every shadow that you claimed as your own Everything Falls, Everything Rises In Turn Surrendering The Mass That The Atmospheres Burn The Heavy Turns Buoyant, The Summit Slips Low Swallowed In The Vortex Where The Currents Overblow Pivoting Easy In The Middle Of The Spin Where Nothing Cast Away Can Ever Tumble Back In Everything Falls, Everything Rises In. Everything falls... Everything rises... Slip the brass latch Trip the quiet catch Floating untethered tonight Everything Falls, Everything Rises In.